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Форсӣ (фарсӣ)
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
Форсӣ (фарсӣ)
فارسی · Arab script, written right to left. Spoken in Throughout Iran; the language of the state and of the wider diaspora.
Харита вақте бор мешавад, ки шумо онро дархост кунед.
On the mapWhere spokenrecordedCourses17
Ҳоло
Академия126 курс, ҳоло ҳеҷ кадоме барои бақайдгирӣ кушода нестШаҳрвандӣ3 маърака, 5 барномаМерос116 рӯзи гиромидошт, 40 сабти солшуморХабарҳо88 манбаи тасдиқшуда, ҳоло ягон чорабинии тасдиқшуда нестШӯъбаҳодар ҳоли ташаккул. Ҳоло ҳеҷ кадоме эътироф нашудааст
ScriptArabright to leftat launch
Record
faفارسیPersian (Farsi) · Arab
- Code
- fa
- Family
- Iranian, Southwestern
- Where
- Дар саросари Эрон; забони давлат ва диаспораи васеътар
- Phase
- at launch
- Фарогирӣ
- not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.
Courses that teach it
17 in the cataloguePersian script and reading (ZWNJ, nasta'liq)IDCDC-PER-01 · Outline ready, not open yet
КушодаPersian A1IDCDC-PER-02 · Outline ready, not open yet
КушодаPersian A2 to B1IDCDC-PER-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаPersian B2 to C1IDCDC-PER-04 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаPersian through poetryIDCDC-PER-05 · Outline ready, not open yet
КушодаPersian for interpreters (medical, legal)IDCDC-PER-06 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаPersian language 101IDCDC-PER-09 · Outline ready, not open yet
КушодаJudeo-Persian heritageIDCDC-LNG-08 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаIslamic Iran and the Persian renaissanceIDCDC-HIS-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаThe Persianate worldIDCDC-HIS-12 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаIranians in Europe, North America and the Persian GulfIDCDC-DIA-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаModern Persian literatureIDCDC-LIT-05 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаPersian literature and poetry 101IDCDC-LIT-08 · Outline ready, not open yet
КушодаPersian paintingIDCDC-ART-04 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаPersian cuisine and its regionsIDCDC-FOD-01 · Outline ready, not open yet
КушодаIntergenerational dialogueIDCDC-WEL-02 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаCaring for elders abroadIDCDC-WEL-03 · Planned, outline not written yet
КушодаCourses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.
Writing
1 scriptIts own names
فارسیfārsī
right to leftХатҳо
- 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
бояд тасдиқ шавадNames in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.
Resources
10 resourcesLoghatnameh Dehkhoda (the Dehkhoda dictionary)dictionary · Dehkhoda Lexicon Institute, University of Tehran · link not checked
бояд тасдиқ шавадA Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (Steingass, 1892)dictionary · Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago · checked 2026-10-23
тасдиқшудаApproved terms (Farhang-e vāzhe-hā-ye moṣavvab)terminology · Academy of Persian Language and Literature · link not checked
бояд тасдиқ шавадUniversal Dependencies: Persian Seraji treebankcorpus · Universal Dependencies · checked 2026-10-23
тасдиқшудаDigital librarylibrary · National Library and Archives of Iran · link not checked
бояд тасдиқ шавадEncyclopaedia Iranicareference · Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University · link not checked
бояд тасдиқ шавадBBC Persianmedia · BBC World Service (United Kingdom) · checked 2026-10-23 · Public broadcaster.
тасдиқшудаDW Persianmedia · Deutsche Welle (Germany) · checked 2026-10-23 · Public broadcaster.
тасдиқшудаRadio Fardamedia · Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (United States) · checked 2026-10-23 · Publicly funded broadcaster.
тасдиқшудаGlottolog: Western Farsireference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
тасдиқшудаEach resource shows whether its link was checked. A resource without a checked link is labelled to verify.
Linguistics
family, dialects, sounds and standing- Family
- 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)) дараҷаи дуюм
- Sounds
- 23 consonants and 6 vowels, after Majidi and Ternes 1991 · the inventory тасдиқшуда
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
Тасдиқ кунед, манбаъ илова кунед ё гузориш диҳед
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.
тасдиқшудаSpeakers
номаълум
- Меъёр
- speakers
- Сол
- сабт нашудааст
- Сарчашма
- Ҳоло манбаъ нест. Мо номаълум нишон медиҳем, на тахмин.
- Вазъият
- номаълум
Тасдиқ кунед, манбаъ илова кунед ё гузориш диҳед
No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.
Classification and standing from the sources named on each line. Where views differ, each view is shown with its sources.
Омӯзед
7 courses1
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
A course opens after its outline is reviewed. Until then it is listed with its state.
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- номаълумҲоло манбаъ нест. Мо номаълум нишон медиҳем, на тахмин.
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Барои филтр нависед. Барои ҳаракат тугмаҳои тирча ва барои кушодан Enter-ро истифода баред.
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Ҳеҷ чиз мувофиқ нест .
Калимаи кӯтоҳтар ё номи кишварро бо англисӣ санҷед. Шумо инчунин метавонед рӯйхати пурраро тамошо кунед.
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