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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Marathi
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3252
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2336
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
سلام
Namaskar
Thank You
متشکرم
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
kaso assa?
Good Night
شب بخیر
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
لطفا
Chike
Sorry
متاسف
Maf kor
Bye
خدا حافظ
Adeus
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Antruz
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Goa
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Not present
Where They Speak
Afganistan
-
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Not present
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
-
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
65.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
فارسی
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
persan
konkani
German Name
Persisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Persian people
Konkanis
Origin
1500 BC
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Iranian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Persian
Kokani
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fa
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
kok
ISO 639 2/B
per
kok
ISO 639 3
pes
kok
ISO 639 6
pers
kok
Glottocode
fars1254
goan1235
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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