Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Thailand
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
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3244
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
632
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2344
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Thai
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
متشکرم
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
لطفا
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
متاسف
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
خدا حافظ
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Isan
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Isan
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
129
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.85 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
persan
thaï
German Name
Persisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
1500 BC
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tai
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Persian
Thai
Language Position
2347
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
tha
ISO 639 2/B
per
tha
ISO 639 3
pes
tha
ISO 639 6
pers
tha
Glottocode
fars1254
thai1261
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating