1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China, Guangdong
1.5 Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.6 Speaking Continents
1.7 Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Hawaii
1.8 Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.9 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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.10 Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Chinese Language
1.11 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.2 Phonology
2.2.1 How Many Vowels
2.4.1 How Many Consonants
2.5 Scripts
Arabic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.6 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.7 Hard to Learn
2.7.1 Language Levels
2.8.1 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
4.4 Good Night
4.5 Good Evening
4.6 Good Afternoon
4.7 Good Morning
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
4.12 Excuse Me
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
Western Persian
Guangzhou
5.1.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
outside mainland China
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
1.3 Dialect 2
1.3.1 Where They Speak
1.3.3 How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Hong Kong
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00NA
1400
96000000
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
65.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
4.5 Speaking Population
1.3 Native Speakers
65.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
4.4.2 Second Language Speakers
4.4.3 Native Name
4.4.4 Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
4.4.5 French Name
4.4.6 German Name
4.5 Pronunciation
4.6 Ethnicity
Persian people
Not Available
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
5.2.2 Branch
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Cantonese
5.3.3 Language Position
5.4.3 Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Not Available
5.5 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology