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Countries

Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

34
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Pashto and Balochi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3233
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

610
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2321
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Cyrillic

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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

متشکرم
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

چطور هستید?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

شب بخیر
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

عصر بخیر
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

بعد از ظهر بخیر
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

صبح به خیر
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

لطفا
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

متاسف
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

خدا حافظ
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

من شما را دوست دارم
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

ببخشيد!
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western Persian
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Iran, Iraq
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

47,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dari Persian
Olonets

Where They Speak

Afganistan
Olonets

How Many People Speak

12,500,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tajik Persian
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

7,900,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1213
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

65.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

65.00 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

فارسی
Русский

Alternative Names

New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Russki

French Name

persan
russe

German Name

Persisch
Russisch

Pronunciation

[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Persian people
Russians

History

Origin

1500 BC
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Slavic

Branch

Iranian
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Persian
Standard Russian

Language Position

237
1 120
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Signed Forms

Persian Sign Language
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fa
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fas
rus

ISO 639 2/B

per
rus

ISO 639 3

pes
rus

ISO 639 6

pers
rus

Glottocode

fars1254
russ1263

Linguasphere

58-AAC-c
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Persian and Russian Alphabets

Persian and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Persian and Russian. In Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Persian and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Persian and Russian 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 Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Persian and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Persian and Russian Speaking population

Persian and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Persian vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Persian and Russian Language Codes

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