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Languages of Iran: Persian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish. An atlas of 32 languages and varieties, from Persian and South Azerbaijani to Gilaki and Balochi, with scripts, numerals and courses.
The language platform: an atlas of varieties, a script studio, a lexicon, place names, numbers and dates, and the courses of the language school.
Varieties
Persian (Farsi) (فارسی) Iranian, Southwestern; launch
English launch
South Azerbaijani (Azerbaijani Turkish) (تۆرکجه) Turkic, Oghuz; phase-2
Kurdish (Sorani, Kurmanji, Southern Kurdish) (کوردی / Kurdî) Iranian, Northwestern; phase-2
Gilaki (گیلکی) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Mazandarani (مازرونی) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Luri and Bakhtiari (لۊری) Iranian, Southwestern; by-demand
Balochi (بلۏچی) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Talysh (Tolışi) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Armenian (Iranian Armenian) (Հայերեն) Armenian; by-demand
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Urmia) (ܣܘܪܝܝܐ) Semitic, Aramaic; by-demand
Judeo-Persian Iranian, Southwestern; by-demand
German (Deutsch) phase-2
French (Français) phase-2
Swedish (Svenska) phase-2
Dutch (Nederlands) phase-2
Turkish (Türkçe) phase-2
Spanish (Español) phase-2
Arabic (Khuzestani and Gulf Arabic) (عربي) Semitic; launch
Turkmen (Türkmençe / تۆرکمن) Turkic, Oghuz; by-demand
Qashqai (قشقایی) Turkic, Oghuz; by-demand
Khalaj (خلج) Turkic; by-demand
Laki (لکی) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Lari (Achomi) (اچمی) Iranian, Southwestern; by-demand
Semnani (سمنانی) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Tati (Takestani) (تاتی) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Hawrami (Gorani) (هەورامی) Iranian, Northwestern; by-demand
Brahui (براہوئی) Dravidian; by-demand
Mandaic (ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀ) Semitic, Aramaic; by-demand
Georgian (Fereydani) (ქართული) Kartvelian; by-demand
Dari (دری) Iranian, Southwestern; phase-2
Tajik (Тоҷикӣ) Iranian, Southwestern; phase-2
Sources
Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 2025; verified Moran and McCloy (eds.). PHOIBLE 2.0. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2019; verified Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version 49 data. 2026; verified The Unicode Standard, version 18.0.0: Unicode Character Database. 2026; verified ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. 2025; to verify Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Persian, 2012 version. 2012; verified Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Kurdish, 2012 version. 2012; verified Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Armenian, 2022 version. 2022; verified Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Syriac, 2012 version. 2012; verified Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Azerbaijani, 2017 version. 2017; verified Library of Congress. ALA-LC Romanization Tables. 2025; verified Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations. 2025; verified Windfuhr (ed.). The Iranian Languages. Routledge. 2009; to verify
Johanson and Csató (eds.). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. 1998; to verify
Perry. A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. Brill. 2005; to verify
Dum-Tragut. Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian. John Benjamins. 2009; to verify
Khan. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi. Brill. 2016; to verify
Häberl. The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr. Harrassowitz. 2009; to verify
Paul. Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie. Reichert. 1998; to verify
MacKenzie. The Dialect of Awroman (Hawraman-ī Luhōn). Munksgaard. 1966; to verify
Mahmoudveysi, Bailey, Paul and Haig. The Gorani Language of Gawraju. Reichert. 2012; to verify
Fattah. Les dialectes kurdes méridionaux. Acta Iranica 37. Peeters. 2000; to verify
Haig and Öpengin. Kurdish: A critical research overview. Kurdish Studies 2 (2). 2014; to verify
Jahani and Korn. Balochi. In Windfuhr (ed.), The Iranian Languages. 2009; to verify
Paul. A Grammar of Early Judaeo-Persian. Reichert. 2013; to verify
Chyet. Kurdish-English Dictionary. Yale University Press. 2003; to verify
Wahby and Edmonds. A Kurdish-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press. 1966; to verify
Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Routledge and K. Paul. Digital edition: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. 1892; verified
Language school
Persian language 8 courses
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