Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
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
-
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3244
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
617
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2327
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
سلام
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
متشکرم
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Hach ch'i
Please
لطفا
مهربانی کر
Sorry
متاسف
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
خدا حافظ
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Poguli
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Rambani
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
India
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million5.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
65.00 million5.42 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
فارسی
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
persan
kashmiri
German Name
Persisch
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
1500 BC
12th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Iranian
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Persian
Kashmiri
Language Position
2323
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
kas
ISO 639 2/B
per
kas
ISO 639 3
pes
kas
ISO 639 6
pers
kas
Glottocode
fars1254
kash1277
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-