Iranian Persian

Iranian Persian
Iranian Persian
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); L2: 17 million (2021)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Iranian Persian Iranian Persian; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Abadani; Araki; Bandari; Basseri; Esfahani; Karbalai; Kashani; Kermani; Kermanshahi; Kuwaiti; Mashhadi; Qazvini; Shirazi; Tehrani; Yazdi
Writing system	Perso-Arabic script
Official status
Official language in	Iran
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pes
Glottolog	west2369
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Iranian Persian (Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized: Fârsi-ye Irâni),^[2]^[3] Western Persian^[4] or Western Farsi,^[5] natively simply known as Persian (Persian: فارسی, romanized: Fârsi), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by minorities in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world. These are mutually intelligible with other varieties of Persian, including Afghanistan's Dari and Tajikistan's Tajiki.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Iranian Persian at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ "Persian, Iranian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ "639 Identifier Documentation: fas". Sil.org. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
^ Perry, John R. (31 December 1996). "Persian during the Safavid Period: Sketch for an Etat de Langue". In Melville, C. (ed.). Safavid Persia: The History and Politics of an Islamic Society. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860640230.
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Iranian Persian
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]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Iranian Persian Iranian Persian
Dialects	Abadani Araki Bandari Basseri Esfahani Karbalai Kashani Kermani Kermanshahi Kuwaiti Mashhadi Qazvini Shirazi Tehrani Yazdi
Writing system	Perso-Arabic script
Official status
Official language in	Iran
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`pes`
Glottolog	`west2369`
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