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Countries

Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

323
0 46
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National Language

Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Pashto and Balochi Languages
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3228
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

68
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2328
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Arabic

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

سلام
مرحبا

Thank You

متشکرم
شكرا

How Are You?

چطور هستید?
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

شب بخیر
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

عصر بخیر
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

بعد از ظهر بخیر
مساء الخير

Good Morning

صبح به خیر
صباح الخير

Please

لطفا
من فضلك

Sorry

متاسف
آسف

Bye

خدا حافظ
وداعا

I Love You

من شما را دوست دارم
أحبك

Excuse Me

ببخشيد!
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western Persian
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Iran, Iraq
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

47,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dari Persian
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Afganistan
Sudan

How Many People Speak

12,500,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tajik Persian
Levantine

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

7,900,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1226
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

65.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

65.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

فارسی
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

persan
arabe

German Name

Persisch
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[fɒːɾˈsiː]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Persian people
Arabs

History

Origin

1500 BC
512 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Semitic

Branch

Iranian
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms

Standard Forms

Persian
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

2325
1 120
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Signed Forms

Persian Sign Language
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

fa
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fas
ara

ISO 639 2/B

per
ara

ISO 639 3

pes
ara

ISO 639 6

pers
ara

Glottocode

fars1254
arab1395

Linguasphere

58-AAC-c
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Persian and Arabic Alphabets

Persian and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Persian and Arabic. In Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Persian and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Persian and Arabic languages. The Persian phonology consist Persian vowels and Persian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Persian greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Persian and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Persian and Arabic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Persian and Arabic dialects. Various dialects of Persian and Arabic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Persian are spoken in different Persian Speaking Countries whereas Arabic Dialects are spoken in different Arabic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Persian vs Arabic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Persian dialects include: Western Persian, Dari Persian. Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi , Sudanese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Persian and Arabic Speaking population

Persian and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Persian and Arabic on Persian vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Persian and Arabic Language Codes

Persian and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Persian and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.