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Dari Tajiki: Persian (

Persian, also known as Farsi, is an Iranian language spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan by approximately 110 million people. It is an evolved form of Middle Persian and Old Persian, using a modified Arabic script. Persian has had a significant lexical influence on neighboring languages like Turkish, Armenian, Georgian, and various Indo-Aryan languages. It has a long literary tradition dating back to works like the Shahnameh and poems of Rumi and Hafez.

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Dari Tajiki: Persian (

Persian, also known as Farsi, is an Iranian language spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan by approximately 110 million people. It is an evolved form of Middle Persian and Old Persian, using a modified Arabic script. Persian has had a significant lexical influence on neighboring languages like Turkish, Armenian, Georgian, and various Indo-Aryan languages. It has a long literary tradition dating back to works like the Shahnameh and poems of Rumi and Hafez.

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Persian (/ˈpɜːrʒən/ or /ˈpɜːrʃən/), also known by its endonym Farsi[8][9] (‫ فارسی‬fārsi [fɒːɾˈsiː] (

listen)), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of
the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan (officially
known as Dari since 1958),[10] and Tajikistan (officially known as Tajiki since
the Soviet era),[11] and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and
considered part of Greater Iran. It is written in the Persian alphabet, a modified variant of
the Arabic script, which itself evolved from the Aramaic alphabet.[12][13]
The Persian language is classified as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official religious
and literary language of the Sasanian Empire, itself a continuation of Old Persian, the
language of the Achaemenid Empire.[14][15][16] Its grammar is similar to that of many
contemporary European languages.[17] A Persian-speaking person may be referred to
as Persophone.[18]
There are approximately 110 million Persian speakers worldwide, with the language
holding official status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. For centuries, Persian has also
been a prestigious cultural language in other regions of Western Asia, Central Asia,
and South Asia by the various empires based in the regions.[19]
Persian has had a considerable (mainly lexical) influence on neighboring languages,
particularly the Turkic languages in Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia, neighboring
Iranian languages, as well as Armenian, Georgian, and Indo-Aryan languages,
especially Urdu (a register of Hindustani). It also exerted some influence on Arabic,
particularly Bahrani Arabic,[20] while borrowing much vocabulary from it after the Arab
conquest of Iran.[14][17][21][22][23][24][25]
With a long history of literature in the form of Middle Persian before Islam, Persian was the
first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing, and the
writing of poetry in Persian was established as a court tradition in many eastern
courts.[19] Some of the famous works of Persian literature are the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi,
the works of Rumi, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Panj Ganj of Nizami Ganjavi,
the Divān of Hafez and the two miscellanea of prose and verse by Saadi Shirazi,
the Gulistan and the Bustan.

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