Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
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
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Wu
Where They Speak
Afganistan
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Yue
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
fars1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Persian and Chinese Speaking population
Persian and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Chinese on Persian vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Persian and Chinese Language Codes
Persian and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Persian and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.