Countries
India, Pakistan
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4432
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
176
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2723
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
سلام
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
متشکرم
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
سہا مسا
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
صبح به خیر
Please
مهربانی کر
لطفا
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
متاسف
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
خدا حافظ
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Western Persian
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Poguli
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rambani
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
India
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
412
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.60 million65.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.42 million65.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
فارسی
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
kashmiri
persan
German Name
Kaschmiri
Persisch
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Persian people
Origin
12th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
Persian
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ks
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
fas
ISO 639 2/B
kas
per
ISO 639 3
kas
pes
ISO 639 6
kas
pers
Glottocode
kash1277
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic