Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Nepal
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3248
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
متشکرم
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good afternoon
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
لطفا
कृपया
Sorry
متاسف
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
خدا حافظ
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Nepal
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Afganistan
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Nepal
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1212
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
65.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
persan
népalais
German Name
Persisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1500 BC
19 BC
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
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Persian
Nepali
Language Position
2359
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fa
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
nep
ISO 639 2/B
per
nep
ISO 639 3
pes
npi
ISO 639 6
pers
nep
Glottocode
fars1254
nepa1254
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative