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Countries

Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

33
0 46
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National Language

Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Pashto and Balochi Languages
Armenian

Derived From

Arabic Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3224
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

67
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2317
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Arabic, Latin

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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Greetings

Hello

سلام
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

متشکرم
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

چطور هستید?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

شب بخیر
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

عصر بخیر
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

بعد از ظهر بخیر
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

صبح به خیر
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

لطفا
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

متاسف
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

خدا حافظ
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

من شما را دوست دارم
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

ببخشيد!
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western Persian
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Iran, Iraq
Greece

How Many People Speak

47,000,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dari Persian
Griko

Where They Speak

Afganistan
Italy

How Many People Speak

12,500,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tajik Persian
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

7,900,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1225
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

65.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

65.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

فارسی
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

persan
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Persisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Persian people
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

1500 BC
1500 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Hellenic

Branch

Iranian
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Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Persian and Middle Persian
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Persian
Modern Greek

Language Position

2374
1 120
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Signed Forms

Persian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fa
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fas
ell

ISO 639 2/B

per
gre

ISO 639 3

pes
ell

ISO 639 6

pers
ells

Glottocode

fars1254
gree1276

Linguasphere

58-AAC-c
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Persian and Greek Alphabets

Persian and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Persian and Greek. In Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Persian and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Persian and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Persian and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Persian and Greek Speaking population

Persian and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Persian vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Persian and Greek Language Codes

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