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Persian

Persian

Summary

Persian is natively spoken by about 73 million people, primarily in Afghanistan, where it is one of the official languages alongside Pashto. It is integral to Afghan cultural identity, known for its poetry, music, and art, particularly during the Persianate periods of Central Asian history. Written in the Perso-Arabic script, Persian grammar features a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, a system of noun cases, and a complex system of verb conjugations that indicate tense, aspect, and mood.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Perso-Arabic / other form

  • Writing System Type: Abjad

  • Writing Direction: R to L

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Agglutinative

  • Cases: 2

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 10

  • Word Order: SOV

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8

  • Number of Consonants: 26

Areas Where Spoken

  • Afghanistan (official) (33.0%) (13.6 mil)

  • Iran (official) (56.6%) (50.1 mil)

  • Tajikistan (official) (68.1%) (6.78 mil)

  • Uzbekistan (9.0%) (3.21 mil)

Resources

Books


News


Websites

Tajik 


Farsi

Lessons


Videos

  • Maktabkhooneh - Free Video Courses from the Best Iranian Universities, Free courses on Faradars, the Largest Resource of Educational - Videos in Iran (Most courses are in Persian)

  • Aparat - The Largest Video Sharing Service in Iran

  • FarsiWizard (vocab, grammar)

  • Persian Fairy Tales


Radio


Movies / TV

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