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Persian
Farsi
فَاَرْسِیْ
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Pronunciation	[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Nativeto	Iran^[1] Afghanistan^[1](as Dari) Tajikistan^[1](as Tajik) Uzbekistan Iraq Pakistan^[1] Bahrain Azerbaijan^[2] Kuwait Turkey Kurdistan Syria (Rojava region aleppo)
Native speakers	25 million in Iran, 20 million in Afghanistan, 6 million in Tajikstan, and 4 million in Uzbekistan, and 1 million in Pakistan(2025)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian
Early forms	Old Persian Middle Persian
Dialects	Western Persian Eastern Persian Central Asian Persian Bukharic Hazaragi Aimaq Dehwari Juhuri^[2] Caucasian Tat^[2] Armeno-Tat^[2]
Writing system	Persian alphabet Cyrillic Hebrew script Persian Braille
Official status
Official languagein	👁 Image Iran 👁 Image Afghanistan 👁 Image Tajikistan
Recognised minority languagein	👁 Image Iraq 👁 Image Uzbekistan 👁 Image Pakistan 👁 Image Azerbaijan 👁 Image Bahrain 👁 Image Bulgaria 👁 Image Greece 👁 Image Israel 👁 Image Portugal 👁 Image Romania 👁 Image Russia 👁 Image Turkey 👁 Image United Arab Emirates 👁 Image Kuwait Template:Country data syria
Regulatedby	Academy of Karamni Language and Literature (Iran)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`fa`
ISO 639-2	`per(B)` `fas(T)`
ISO 639-3	`fas` – inclusive code Individual codes: `pes`–Western Persian `prs`–Eastern Persian `tgk`–Tajiki `aiq`–Aimaq `bhh`–Bukharic `haz`–Hazaragi `jpr`–Dzhidi `phv`–Pahlavani `deh`–Dehwari `jdt`–Juhuri `ttt`–Caucasian Tat
Linguasphere	`(Wider Persian) > 58-AAC-c (Central Persian) 58-AAC (Wider Persian) > 58-AAC-c (Central Persian)`
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Persian, also called Farsi, is a Western Iranian language. It is one of the co official languages of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and is also spoken by some people in Pakistan and Uzbekistan.

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1 2 3 4 Samadi, Habibeh; Nick Perkins (2012). Martin Ball, David Crystal, Paul Fletcher (ed.). Assessing Grammar: The Languages of Lars. Multilingual Matters. p.169. ISBN 978-1-84769-637-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
1 2 3 4 Windfuhr, Gernot (2009). The Iranian Languages. p.417-418.

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