Countries
India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
-
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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.
Similar To
Old German Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5232
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
166
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3623
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
سلام
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
متشکرم
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
صبح به خیر
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
لطفا
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
متاسف
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Not present
Western Persian
Where They Speak
-
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
140,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
-
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
140,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
-
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
140,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
012
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million65.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million65.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
sanskrit
persan
German Name
Sanskrit
Persisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Persian people
Origin
2000 B.C.
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Persian
Language Position
2323
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
fas
ISO 639 2/B
san
per
ISO 639 3
san
pes
ISO 639 6
san
pers
Glottocode
sans1269
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic