Iranian Persian
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Iranian Persian (Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized: Pârsi-ye Irâni),[2][3] Western Persian[4] or Western Farsi,[5] natively simply known as Persian (Persian: فارسی, romanized: Pârsi), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world. These are intelligible with other varieties of Persian, including Afghanistan's Dari and Tajikistan's Tajik.[1]
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Iranian Persian | |
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Western Persian | |
فارسی (Fārsi) | |
![]() Fārsi written in Persian calligraphy (Nastaʿlīq) | |
Pronunciation | [fɒːɾˈsiː] |
Native to | Iran |
Region | West Asia |
Ethnicity | Persians |
Speakers | L1: 62 million (2021)[1] L2: 17 million (2021)[1] |
Dialects | Abadani Araki Bandari Basseri Esfahani Karbalai Kashani Kermani Kermanshahi Kuwaiti Mashhadi Qazvini Shirazi Tehrani Yazdi |
Perso-Arabic script | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() |
Regulated by | Academy of Persian Language and Literature |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pes |
Glottolog | west2369 |
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