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ফারসি (ফার্সি)

فارسی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Throughout Iran; the language of the state and of the wider diaspora.

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fa · Arab · right to left · at launch

Language · fa · Iranian, Southwestern · at launch

ফারসি (ফার্সি)

فارسی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Throughout Iran; the language of the state and of the wider diaspora.

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এখন
অ্যাকাডেমি126টি কোর্স, এখনও কোনোটিতে ভর্তি খোলা নেইনাগরিক3টি প্রচারাভিযান, 5টি কর্মসূচিঐতিহ্য116টি পালনীয় দিন, 40টি কালানুক্রমের এন্ট্রিখবর88টি অনুমোদিত উৎস, এখনও কোনো নিশ্চিত অনুষ্ঠান নেইশাখাগঠিত হচ্ছে। এখনও কোনোটি স্বীকৃত নয়
ScriptArabright to leftat launch
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Record

fa
فارسیPersian (Farsi) · Arab
Code
fa
পরিবার
Iranian, Southwestern
Where
সমগ্র ইরানে; রাষ্ট্রের এবং বৃহত্তর প্রবাসের ভাষা
Phase
at launch
ব্যাপ্তি
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

17 in the catalogue
Persian script and reading (ZWNJ, nasta'liq)IDCDC-PER-01 · Outline ready, not open yet
খুলুন
Persian A1IDCDC-PER-02 · Outline ready, not open yet
খুলুন
Persian A2 to B1IDCDC-PER-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Persian B2 to C1IDCDC-PER-04 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Persian through poetryIDCDC-PER-05 · Outline ready, not open yet
খুলুন
Persian for interpreters (medical, legal)IDCDC-PER-06 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Persian language 101IDCDC-PER-09 · Outline ready, not open yet
খুলুন
Judeo-Persian heritageIDCDC-LNG-08 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Islamic Iran and the Persian renaissanceIDCDC-HIS-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
The Persianate worldIDCDC-HIS-12 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Iranians in Europe, North America and the Persian GulfIDCDC-DIA-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Modern Persian literatureIDCDC-LIT-05 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Persian literature and poetry 101IDCDC-LIT-08 · Outline ready, not open yet
খুলুন
Persian paintingIDCDC-ART-04 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Persian cuisine and its regionsIDCDC-FOD-01 · Outline ready, not open yet
খুলুন
Intergenerational dialogueIDCDC-WEL-02 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Caring for elders abroadIDCDC-WEL-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
খুলুন
Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.
অ্যাকাডেমি

Writing

1 script

Its own names

فارسیfārsī
right to left

লিপি

Arab
Persian alphabetا ب پ ت ث ج چ ح
32 letters
  • Perso-Arabic script with پ چ ژ گ; ZWNJ (U+200C); Persian digits; nasta'liq tradition

From one script to another

Persian to Latin, ALA-LC (2012)Letter by letter. Short vowels are not written in Persian, so a full romanisation needs them supplied from a dictionary. و and ی are read as consonants at the start of a word or beside a vowel letter, otherwise as long vowels.
Persian orthography (Dastur-e khatt-e fārsi)Academy of Persian Language and Literature
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Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.
All scripts

সম্পদ

10 resources
Loghatnameh Dehkhoda (the Dehkhoda dictionary)dictionary · Dehkhoda Lexicon Institute, University of Tehran · link not checked
যাচাই করতে হবে
A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (Steingass, 1892)dictionary · Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago · checked 2026-10-23
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Approved terms (Farhang-e vāzhe-hā-ye moṣavvab)terminology · Academy of Persian Language and Literature · link not checked
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Universal Dependencies: Persian Seraji treebankcorpus · Universal Dependencies · checked 2026-10-23
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Digital librarylibrary · National Library and Archives of Iran · link not checked
যাচাই করতে হবে
Encyclopaedia Iranicareference · Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University · link not checked
যাচাই করতে হবে
BBC Persianmedia · BBC World Service (United Kingdom) · checked 2026-10-23 · Public broadcaster.
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DW Persianmedia · Deutsche Welle (Germany) · checked 2026-10-23 · Public broadcaster.
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Radio Fardamedia · Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (United States) · checked 2026-10-23 · Publicly funded broadcaster.
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Glottolog: Western Farsireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
পরিবার
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Southwestern Iranian, then Middle-Modern Persian, then Modern Southwestern Iranian, then Farsic-Caucasian Tat, then Farsic
Codes
ISO 639-3 pes · macrolanguage fas · Glottolog west2369
Dialects
Western Farsi: Central Persian, Eastern Persian, Northern Persian, Southern Persian (63 listed in all)
Standing
Western Farsi: not endangered (1 (National)) গৌণ
Sounds
23 consonants and 6 vowels, after Majidi and Ternes 1991 · the inventory যাচাইকৃত

b d d̠ʒ f ɡ ɣ h j kʰ l m n pʰ r s ʃ tʰ t̠ʃ v x z ʒ ʔ æ ɒ e i o u

Farsic
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যাচাই করুন, উৎস যোগ করুন বা জানান
এই মানটি যাচাইয়ে সাহায্য করুন

এরপর কী হয়। একজন তত্ত্বাবধায়ক আপনার নোট পড়েন এবং উৎস যাচাই করেন। কেবল তারপরই পাতাটি বদলায়। আপনার নাম প্রকাশ করা হয় না।

Grammar in short

  • Word order is usually subject, object, verb.
  • Nouns have no grammatical gender.
  • The ezafe vowel -e links a noun to the words that describe it, as in ketāb-e man, my book.
  • A definite direct object takes rā after it.
  • The verb agrees with the subject in person and number. Subject pronouns are often left out.
  • The prefix mi- marks ongoing or habitual action. The prefix be- marks the subjunctive and the imperative.

to verify · Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge.

Persian or Farsi

Speakers call the language fārsī. In English, ISO 639 and most libraries name it Persian. Farsi is also common in English, mostly for the language of Iran.

to verify · ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority.; Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Persian, 2012 version.

One language, three standards

Persian of Iran, Dari of Afghanistan and Tajik of Tajikistan are mutually intelligible in their standard forms. Many linguists treat them as one pluricentric language. Glottolog and ISO 639-3 list them as three languages (pes, prs, tgk), and each state names its own standard.

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Perry. A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. Brill.; Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge.

In law

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Article 15) makes Persian the official language and script. It allows regional and tribal languages in the press and media, and the teaching of their literature in schools, alongside Persian.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.
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Speakers

অজানা
পরিমাপ
speakers
বছর
রেকর্ড করা হয়নি
উৎস
এখনও কোনো উৎস নেই। আমরা অনুমান নয়, অজানা দেখাই।
অবস্থা
অজানা
যাচাই করুন, উৎস যোগ করুন বা জানান
এই মানটি যাচাইয়ে সাহায্য করুন

এরপর কী হয়। একজন তত্ত্বাবধায়ক আপনার নোট পড়েন এবং উৎস যাচাই করেন। কেবল তারপরই পাতাটি বদলায়। আপনার নাম প্রকাশ করা হয় না।

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Classification and standing from the sources named on each line. Where views differ, each view is shown with its sources.

শিখুন

7 courses
1
Persian script and reading (ZWNJ, nasta'liq)IDCDC-PER-01 · Outline ready, not open yet
2
Persian A1IDCDC-PER-02 · Outline ready, not open yet
3
Persian A2 to B1IDCDC-PER-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
4
Persian B2 to C1IDCDC-PER-04 · Planned, outline not written yet
5
Persian through poetryIDCDC-PER-05 · Outline ready, not open yet
6
Persian for interpreters (medical, legal)IDCDC-PER-06 · Planned, outline not written yet
7
Saturday-school teacher trainingIDCDC-PER-08 · Outline ready, not open yet
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