Countries
India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
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
Not Available
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
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not present
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Not Available
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
sanskrit
persan
German Name
Sanskrit
Persisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Persian people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Persian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sans1269
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic
Sanskrit and Persian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sanskrit and Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Persian language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sanskrit vs Persian Difficulty
The Sanskrit vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit Alphabets and Persian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sanskrit and Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.