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Countries

Countries

Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

34
0 46
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National Language

Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Asia
Europe

Minority Language

Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

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.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.

Similar To

Pashto and Balochi Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3230
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2325
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

سلام
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

متشکرم
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

چطور هستید?
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

شب بخیر
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

عصر بخیر
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

بعد از ظهر بخیر
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

صبح به خیر
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

لطفا
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

متاسف
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

خدا حافظ
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

من شما را دوست دارم
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

ببخشيد!
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Western Persian
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Iran, Iraq
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

47,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dari Persian
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Afganistan
Serbia

How Many People Speak

12,500,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tajik Persian
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

7,900,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

123
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

65.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

65.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

فارسی
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Montenegrin

French Name

persan
serbe

German Name

Persisch
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Persian people
Serbs

History

Origin

1500 BC
11th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Serbian

Language Position

2344
1 120
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Signed Forms

Persian Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fa
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fas
srp

ISO 639 2/B

per
srp

ISO 639 3

pes
srp

ISO 639 6

pers
srp

Glottocode

fars1254
serb1264

Linguasphere

58-AAC-c
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Persian and Serbian Alphabets

Persian and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Persian and Serbian. In Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Persian and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Persian and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Persian and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Persian and Serbian Speaking population

Persian and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. 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 Serbian on Persian vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Persian and Serbian Language Codes

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