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Countries

Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries

32
0 46
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National Language

Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
France, Spain

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Europe

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
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

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.
  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.

Similar To

Pashto and Balochi Languages
Spanish

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3227
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2321
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

سلام
Kaixo

Thank You

متشکرم
Eskerrik asko

How Are You?

چطور هستید?
Zer moduz?

Good Night

شب بخیر
Gabon

Good Evening

عصر بخیر
Arratsalde on

Good Afternoon

بعد از ظهر بخیر
Arratsalde on

Good Morning

صبح به خیر
Egun on

Please

لطفا
Mesedez

Sorry

متاسف
Barkatu

Bye

خدا حافظ
Agur

I Love You

من شما را دوست دارم
Maite zaitut

Excuse Me

ببخشيد!
Barkatu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western Persian
Navarro-Lapurdian

Where They Speak

Iran, Iraq
France

How Many People Speak

47,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dari Persian
Souletin

Where They Speak

Afganistan
France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak

12,500,000.008,700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tajik Persian
Biscayan

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Spain

How Many People Speak

7,900,000.00750,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

126
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

65.00 million7.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %0.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

65.00 million7.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

فارسی
Euskara

Alternative Names

New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

French Name

persan
basque

German Name

Persisch
Baskisch

Pronunciation

[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[bɑːsk]

Ethnicity

Persian people
Basque people

History

Origin

1500 BC
c. 1000

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Vasconic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Iranian
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Persian and Middle Persian
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

Standard Forms

Persian
Basque

Language Position

2330
1 120
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Signed Forms

Persian Sign Language
Basque Sign Language

Scope

Individual
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Code

ISO 639 1

fa
eu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fas
eus

ISO 639 2/B

per
baq

ISO 639 3

pes
eus

ISO 639 6

pers
eus

Glottocode

fars1254
basq1248

Linguasphere

58-AAC-c
40-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
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Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative

Persian and Basque Alphabets

Persian and Basque Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Persian and Basque. In Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Persian and Basque languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Persian and Basque 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 Basque greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Persian and Basque are Most Spoken Languages.

All Persian and Basque 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 Basque dialects. Various dialects of Persian and Basque language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Persian are spoken in different Persian Speaking Countries whereas Basque Dialects are spoken in different Basque speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Persian vs Basque Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Persian dialects include: Western Persian, Dari Persian. Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian , Souletin. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Persian and Basque Speaking population

Persian and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 %. 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 Basque on Persian vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Persian and Basque Language Codes

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