Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
India
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
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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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3252
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2336
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
متشکرم
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
شب بخیر
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
لطفا
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
متاسف
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
خدا حافظ
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Not present
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
-
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan
-
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Not present
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
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How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
persan
sanskrit
German Name
Persisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
1500 BC
2000 B.C.
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
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Persian
Sanskrit
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
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Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
san
ISO 639 2/B
per
san
ISO 639 3
pes
san
ISO 639 6
pers
san
Glottocode
fars1254
sans1269
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic