Countries
Indonesia
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
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Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
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Arabic Language
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million65.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.25 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
76.00 million65.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
82.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
basa Jawa
فارسی
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
javanais
persan
German Name
Javanisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Persian people