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2 days ago · 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. Modern Persian is most closely related to Middle and Old Persian , former languages of the region of Fārs (Persia) in southwestern Iran.
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2 days ago · What is the official language of Iran? 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.
- What countries border Iran?Iran is bounded to the north by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea; to the east by Pakistan and Afghanistan; to the south by th...
- Are Persia and Iran the same place?The region that is now known as Iran was traditionally known as Persia, with roots as a distinctive culture and society dating to the Achaemenian p...
- What is the main religion of Iran?The vast majority of Iranians are Muslims of the Ithnā ʿAsharī, or Twelver, Shiʿi branch, which is the official state religion. Iran’s populations...
3 days ago · Pashto (/ ˈ p ʌ ʃ t oʊ / PUH-shto, / ˈ p æ ʃ t oʊ / PASH-toe; 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.
- 40–60 million (2000s)
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Apr 26, 2024 · Persian, predominant ethnic group of Iran (formerly known as Persia ). Although of diverse ancestry, the Persian people are united by their language, Persian (Farsi), which belongs to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family.
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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.)
4 days ago · Capital. name: Tehran geographic coordinates: 35 42 N, 51 25 E time difference: UTC+3.5 (8.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC) daylight saving time: does not observe daylight savings time etymology: various explanations of the city's name have been proffered, but the most plausible states that it derives from the Persian words tah meaning "end or bottom" and ran meaning "[mountain] slope" to ...
May 2, 2024 · Parsi refers to a member of the Zoroastrian community originating from Persia, now living predominantly in India, while Farsi is the Persian language spoken in Iran. Difference Between Parsi and Farsi. Table of Contents. ADVERTISEMENT. Key Differences.
