Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Turkey
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, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
متشکرم
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
چطور هستید?
Good Night
İyi Geceler
شب بخیر
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
günaydın
صبح به خیر
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
German Name
Türkisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Persian people
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Iranian
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Persian
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1301
fars1254
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic
Turkish 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 Turkish and Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Persian language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Persian Difficulty
The Turkish vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish 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 Turkish and Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.