Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
35
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2323
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
متشکرم
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
لطفا
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
متاسف
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
خدا حافظ
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Wu
Where They Speak
Afganistan
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Yue
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1210
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million873.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
persan
chinois
German Name
Persisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Han
Origin
1500 BC
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
231
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
zho
ISO 639 2/B
per
chi
ISO 639 3
pes
zho
ISO 639 6
pers
zho
Glottocode
fars1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating