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Countries

Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

31
0 46
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National Language

Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Japan

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Palau

Regulated By

Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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.
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Pashto and Balochi Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3299
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2314
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Kana

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

سلام
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

متشکرم
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

چطور هستید?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

شب بخیر
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

عصر بخیر
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

بعد از ظهر بخیر
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

صبح به خیر
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

لطفا
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

متاسف
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

خدا حافظ
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

من شما را دوست دارم
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

ببخشيد!
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western Persian
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Iran, Iraq
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

47,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dari Persian
Hakata

Where They Speak

Afganistan
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

12,500,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tajik Persian
Kansai

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
kansai

How Many People Speak

7,900,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1231
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

65.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

65.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

فارسی
日本語

Alternative Names

New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Nihongo

French Name

persan
japonais

German Name

Persisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[fɒːɾˈsiː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Persian people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1500 BC
1185

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
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Branch

Iranian
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Persian
Japanese

Language Position

238
1 120
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Signed Forms

Persian Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fa
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fas
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

per
jpn

ISO 639 3

pes
jpn

ISO 639 6

pers
jpn

Glottocode

fars1254
nucl1643

Linguasphere

58-AAC-c
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Persian and Japanese Alphabets

Persian and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Persian and Japanese. In Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Persian and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Persian and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Persian and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Persian and Japanese Speaking population

Persian and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Persian vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Persian and Japanese Language Codes

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