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Persian (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən / PUR-zhən or / ˈ p ɜːr ʃ ən / PUR-shən), also known by its endonym Farsi or Parsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] ⓘ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
- Indo-Iranian Languages
Chart classifying Indo-Iranian languages within the...
- Southwestern Iranian
Map of modern Iranian languages on the Persian plateau. The...
- Persian Phonology
The phonology of the Persian language varies between...
- Tajik Language
Tajik, also called Tajiki Persian or Tajiki, is the variety...
- Help
See English-language vowel changes before historic /l/ for...
- Dari
Dari (/ ˈ d ɑː r i, ˈ d æ-/; endonym: دری [d̪ɐˈɾiː]), also...
- Persian Calligraphy
Contemporary Persian calligraphy. In 1950, the Iran's...
- Pahlavi Scripts
Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various...
- Persis
Persis (Greek: Περσίς, romanized: Persís; Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿,...
- Indo-Iranian Languages
- Alphabet
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The Persian alphabethas the following letters: The Persian alphabet used in Iran and Afghanistan is similar to the Arabic alphabet, but since Persian in a different family from Arabic, their vocabulary and grammar are very different. Since the 1930s, in the countries that were in the Soviet Union, like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Persian has been wr...
Persian is a very old language, and linguists use names for three different versions of Persian that were used in three different times. Old Persian was spoken in the first Persian Empire, under the Achaemenid kings, including Cyrus and Darius the Great. The empire existed from the 6th century BC to the conquest of Alexander the Great. The second P...
Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of May 2024, it has 1,002,681 articles, 1,311,675 registered users, and 90,635 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by ...
Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as Persian ), Dari Persian (officially known as Dari since 1964), and Tajiki Persian (officially known as Tajik since 1999).
May 11, 2024 · Persian language, also called Farsi, member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family. It is the official language of Iran, and two varieties of Persian known as Dari and Tajik are official languages in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, respectively.
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Iranian Persian (Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized: Fârsi-ye Irâni), Western Persian or Western Farsi, natively simply known as Persian (Persian: فارسی, romanized: Fârsi), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by minorities in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the ...
The Persian language, which belongs to Iranian branch of Indo-European language family, is the official language and lingua franca of Iran. Ethnic groups. An estimate of the ethnic structure of the Iranian population for 2003 is as follows: [1] Other estimates include the Gilaki and Mazanderani populations in Persian population. Language policy.
