Persian
Western Iranian language
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Summary
Persian is a natural language[1]. Persian ranks in the top 0.82% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,430 views/month, #6 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Iran[3], Bahrain[4], Kuwait[5], Afghanistan[6], Pakistan[7], Tajikistan[8], Uzbekistan[9], Russia[10], United Arab Emirates[11], Iraq[12]
- Instance of: modern language[13], macrolanguage[14], field of study[15], dialect continuum[16], language[17], language family[18], dialect group[19]
- Follows: Middle Persian[20]
- Subclass of: New Persian[21]
- Writing system: Persian alphabet[22], Arabic script[23]
- Part of: languages of Iran[24]
- Commons category: Persian language[25]
- Wikimedia language code: fa[26]
- Topic's main category: Category:Persian language[27]
- Language regulatory body: Academy of Persian Language and Literature[28], Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan[29], Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature[30]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 45,000,000[31], 52,939,220[32], 70,000,000[33]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[34], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[35], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[36], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[37]
- Topic has template: Template:Persian language[38], Q104212733[39]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/persian[40], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/persian[41]
- Native label: فارسی[42]
- Short name: персидский[43], перська[44], farsca[45], форсӣ[46], персайнаг[47], парсыша[48], персідская[49], порсӣ[50], פרסית[51]
Why It Matters
Persian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] Persian is known by 97 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]
Persian has been cited as an influence by English[54], a natural language[55], in American Samoa[56]; Indonesian[57], a language[58], in Indonesia[59]; and Globasa[60], an international auxiliary language[61], founded in 2019[62].
FAQs
Who did Persian influence?
Persian has been cited as an influence by English[54], Indonesian[57], and Globasa[60].