Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2322
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
متشکرم
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
لطفا
будь ласк
Sorry
متاسف
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
خدا حافظ
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Podillian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Volynian
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1215
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
65.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
persan
ukrainien
German Name
Persisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Ukrainians
Origin
1500 BC
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Iranian
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Persian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2326
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
per
ukr
ISO 639 3
pes
ukr
ISO 639 6
pers
ukr
Glottocode
fars1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic