Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
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
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2328
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, 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
سلام
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
متشکرم
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
لطفا
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
متاسف
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
خدا حافظ
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Kartli
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
1220
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
persan
géorgien
German Name
Persisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Georgians
Origin
1500 BC
5th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Southern
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Persian
Modern Georgian
Language Position
23120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
fa
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
kat
ISO 639 2/B
per
geo
ISO 639 3
pes
kat
ISO 639 6
pers
kat
Glottocode
fars1254
nucl1302
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic