Countries
Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Russia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Cyrillic
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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Greetings
Hello
سلام
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
متشکرم
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
لطفا
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
متاسف
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
خدا حافظ
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
извините(izvinite)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Olonets
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1213
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
Русский
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Russki
French Name
persan
russe
German Name
Persisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Persian people
Russians
History
Origin
1500 BC
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Slavic
Branch
Iranian
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Russian
Language Position
237
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fa
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
rus
ISO 639 2/B
per
rus
ISO 639 3
pes
rus
ISO 639 6
pers
rus
Glottocode
fars1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic