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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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4 days ago · Pashto [b] ( / ˈpʌʃtoʊ / PUH-shto, [6] [4] [5] / ˈpæʃtoʊ / PASH-toe; [c] پښتو, Pəx̌tó, [pəʂˈto, pʊxˈto, pəʃˈto, pəçˈto]) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan, southern and eastern Afghanistan, and some isolated pockets of far eastern Iran near the Afghan border.
May 23, 2024 · While various dialects of Persian are in use throughout the world, they are all mutually intelligible, unlike some widespread languages such as Arabic and Mandarin. Differences in speech are not drastic between dialects such as Tajik and Dari, for example, though the alphabets used are entirely different.
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May 23, 2024 · Linguists generally recognize three major divisions of Indo-Aryan languages: Old, Middle, and New (or Modern) Indo-Aryan. These divisions are primarily linguistic and are named in the order in which they initially appeared, with later divisions coexisting with rather than completely replacing earlier ones.
May 23, 2024 · Farsi is the language most commonly spoken in Iran. It derives from Indo-Iranian language, and it is most commonly called Persian, or Parsi by Western European and North American English language speakers. As a language, it is separated into several periods of language evolution. Old Farsi or Old Persian was spoken from about 500-300 BCE.
May 24, 2024 · In the classification of the Iranian languages, the Middle Period includes those languages which were common in Iran from the fall of the Achaemenid Empire in the fourth century BCE up to the fall of the Sasanian Empire in the seventh century CE.
May 16, 2024 · A little over half of the Iranian population speaks Farsi as a native language, many of them using the Tehrani dialect that differs somewhat from literary standard Persian. (The other half of the population speaks Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and a handful of other recognized regional languages, such as Arabic and Balochi.)
