Countries
Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
3
Rank: 12 (Overall)
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0
32
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How Many Consonants
23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
سلام
Thank You
متشکرم
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
شب بخیر
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Please
لطفا
Sorry
متاسف
Bye
خدا حافظ
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
Rank: 33 (Overall)
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
Rank: 32 (Overall)
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
12
Rank: 12 (Overall)
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
65.00 million
Rank: 17 (Overall)
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall)
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
فارسی
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
persan
German Name
Persisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Persian people
History
Origin
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Persian
Language Position
23
Rank: 21 (Overall)
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
ISO 639 2/B
per
ISO 639 3
pes
ISO 639 6
pers
Glottocode
fars1254
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic