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1 day ago · Persian (Fārsī) is the predominant and official language of Iran. A number of languages and dialects from three language families—Indo-European, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic—are also spoken.
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3 days ago · The CIA World Factbook (which is based on 2013 statistics) gives the following numbers for the languages spoken in Iran today: Persian, Luri, Gilaki and Mazandarani 66%; Azerbaijani and other Turkic languages 18%; Kurdish 10%; Arabic 2%; Balochi 2%; others 2% (Armenian, Georgian, Circassian, Assyrian, etc.).
- 15.27 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
- 0.98% (2022 est.)
- 5.17 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
- 87,929,883 (2023 est.)
3 days ago · Standard Arabic is spoken as a first language by more than 200 million people living in a broad area stretching from the Atlantic coast of northern Africa to western Iran; an additional 250 million people in the region speak Standard Arabic as a secondary language.
1 day ago · This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language .
3 days ago · There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch. [1] All Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, linguistically reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European , spoken sometime during the Neolithic or early ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
4 days ago · The most spoken language in Iran is Persian (Farsi), spoken by approximately 53% of the population. About 26% of Iran's population speaks Azerbaijani as their first language. Approximately 2 million people in Iran speak Luri. Around 1.5% of Iran's population speaks Bakhtiari. Approximately 1.6 million people in Iran speak Kurdish.
3 days ago · Middle East. Middle East, the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, encompassing at least the Arabian Peninsula and, by some definitions, Iran, North Africa, and sometimes beyond. The central part of this general area was formerly called the Near East, a name given to it by some of the first modern Western ...
