Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Czech Republic
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.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3237
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Latin
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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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
Xin chào
Thank You
متشکرم
Cam on
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
شب بخیر
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Chào buổi sáng
Please
لطفا
xin vui lòng
Sorry
متاسف
Xin lỗi
Bye
خدا حافظ
Tạm biệt
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
125
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %1.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million75.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
persan
vietnamien
German Name
Persisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Persian people
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
1500 BC
c. 1440
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
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
2314
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
vie
ISO 639 2/B
per
vie
ISO 639 3
pes
vie
ISO 639 6
pers
vie
Glottocode
fars1254
viet1252
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating