Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3236
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2327
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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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Hello
سلام
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
متشکرم
rakhmat
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
شب بخیر
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
لطفا
birdam
Sorry
متاسف
kachurung
Bye
خدا حافظ
Khayr khosh
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Turpan
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
China
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Hotan
Where They Speak
Afganistan
China
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
127
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
persan
ouïgour
German Name
Persisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Uyghur
Origin
1500 BC
11
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Persian
Uyghur
Language Position
2398
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
fa
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
uig
ISO 639 2/B
per
uig
ISO 639 3
pes
uig
ISO 639 6
pers
uig
Glottocode
fars1254
uigh1240
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-