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
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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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Hello
سلام
Henda ho
Thank You
متشکرم
Adi Johar
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
شب بخیر
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
संध्यायान
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Boge Setak’
Please
لطفا
দয়া করে
Sorry
متاسف
দুঃখিত
Bye
خدا حافظ
Hariau
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
India
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan
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How Many People Speak
12,500,000.006,000,000.00
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
7,900,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
persan
santal
German Name
Persisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1500 BC
20th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
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Branch
Iranian
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Persian
Santali
Language Position
2341
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
sat
ISO 639 2/B
per
sat
ISO 639 3
pes
sat
ISO 639 6
pers
sat
Glottocode
fars1254
sant1410
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
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