Persian ( / ˈpɜːrʒən / PUR-zhən or / ˈpɜːrʃən / PUR-shən ), also known by its endonym Farsi ( فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] ⓘ ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
- Persian Alphabet
The Persian alphabet (Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized:...
- Indo-European Languages
In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people)...
- Old Persian
Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian...
- Muslim Conquest of Persia
Particularly, Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (661–714) officially...
- Persian Grammar
Persian grammar (Persian: دستور زبان فارسی, Dastur-e Zabân-e...
- Romanization of Persian
Romanization of Persian or Latinization of Persian (Persian:...
- Persian Alphabet
- Alphabet
- History
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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...
- 60 million (2009), (110 million total speakers)
Iranian Persian, Western Persian or Western Farsi, natively simply known as Persian (فارسی, Fārsi), refers to the varieties of the modern Persian language spoken in Iran and by minorities in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.
- 55.6 million (2015)
- Perso-Arabic script
'Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia') is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of September 2023, it has 974,067 articles, 1,249,876 registered users, and 86,830 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among ...
- December 19, 2003; 19 years ago
- Persian
- 1,133,601 (total registered, as of 11 July 2022)
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The Persians ( / ˈpɜːrʒənz / PUR-zhənz or / ˈpɜːrʃənz / PUR-shənz) are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. [4] They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language [6] [7] [8] as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian. [9]
The Iranian languages, also called Iranic languages, [1] [2] are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau .
Persian language, also called Fārsī, 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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