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1 day ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
4 days ago · This process gave origin to many languages and branches of this language family. By around 1000 BCE, there were many millions of Indo-European speakers, and they lived in a vast geographical area which covered most of western and southern Eurasia (including western Central Asia).
3 days ago · Armenian ( endonym: հայերեն [c] ( hayeren ), pronounced [hɑjɛˈɾɛn]) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of an independent branch of that language family. It is the native language of the Armenian people and the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian highlands, today Armenian is also widely ...
3 days ago · Bengali language, member of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken by more than 210 million people as a first or second language, with some 100 million Bengali speakers in Bangladesh; about 85 million in India, primarily in the states of.
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5 days ago · 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.
4 days ago · ancient Iran, historic region of southwestern Asia that is only roughly coterminous with modern Iran. The term Persia was used for centuries, chiefly in the West, to designate those regions where Persian language and culture predominated, but it more correctly refers to a region of southern Iran formerly known as Persis, alternatively as Pārs or Parsa, modern Fārs.
1 day ago · Statistic 11. "Persian (Farsi) is the most spoken language in Iran, with approximately 53% of the population using it as their first language." Share this statistic: Cite.
