Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
India
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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Bengali Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2331
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
متشکرم
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
لطفا
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
متاسف
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
خدا حافظ
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Afganistan
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Surati
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
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How Many People Speak
7,900,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
persan
goudjrati
German Name
Persisch
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Gujaratis
Origin
1500 BC
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Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Iranian
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Persian
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fa
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
guj
ISO 639 2/B
per
guj
ISO 639 3
pes
guj
ISO 639 6
pers
guj
Glottocode
fars1254
guja1252
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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