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Persian (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən / PUR-zhən or / ˈ p ɜːr ʃ ən / PUR-shən), also known by its endonym Farsi or Parsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] ⓘ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
- Indo-Iranian Languages
Chart classifying Indo-Iranian languages within the...
- Southwestern Iranian
Map of modern Iranian languages on the Persian plateau. The...
- Persian Phonology
The phonology of the Persian language varies between...
- Tajik Language
Tajik, also called Tajiki Persian or Tajiki, is the variety...
- Help
Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is...
- Dari
Dari (/ ˈ d ɑː r i, ˈ d æ-/; endonym: دری [d̪ɐˈɾiː]), also...
- Persian Calligraphy
Contemporary Persian calligraphy. In 1950, the Iran's...
- Pahlavi Scripts
Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various...
- Persis
Persis (Greek: Περσίς, romanized: Persís; Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿,...
- Indo-Iranian Languages
Persian Wikipedia ( Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized : Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of May 2024, it has 1,001,604 articles, 1,308,532 registered users, and 90,523 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by ...
- December 19, 2003; 19 years ago
- Persian
- 1,133,601 (total registered, as of 11 July 2022)
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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.
- 60 million (2009), (110 million total speakers)
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi or Parsi, is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian, Dari Persian, and Tajiki ...
3 days ago · The literary language was established by the national poet Kosta Khetagurov (1859–1906). 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Iranian Persian ( Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized : Fârsi-ye Irâni ), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian ( Persian: فارسی, romanized : Fârsi ), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by minorities in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian ...
Persian, also called Farsi, is a Western Iranian language. It is the official language of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is also spoken by many people in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other neighbouring countries and by immigrants from Central Asia in Russia. Persian was also taught as a second language in schools in Pakistan until 2006. In the past, many of those places were ...
