ISO 639-3 · fasfas
Indo-European family · macrolanguage
Farsi
فارسی
Farsi is a macrolanguage of the Southwestern Iranian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Iran, Bahrain, Kuwait and Afghanistan and 6 more countries. Wikidata counts 45 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “Western Iranian language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
fas- ISO 639-1
fa- Glottocode
fars1254- Family
- Indo-European
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 31.00, 56.00
- Wikipedia
- 269 language editions
45 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
10countries
4scripts
5levels in the tree
SafeUNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Farsi · فارسی |
|---|---|
| Also called | Persian language, Farsi language, Iranian language, Iranian, Farsic–Caucasian Tat |
| L1 speakers | 45,000,000 (2007) |
| All speakers | 70,000,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Persian alphabet, Arabic script, Latin script, Cyrillic |
| Official in | Iran |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
UNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Farsi
The branches above Farsi, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Iranofficial · 78 languages in the indexBahrain8 languages in the indexKuwait5 languages in the indexAfghanistan46 languages in the indexPakistan71 languages in the indexTajikistan17 languages in the indexUzbekistan20 languages in the indexRussia139 languages in the indexUnited Arab Emirates11 languages in the indexIraq23 languages in the index
Also spoken in Iran
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafepusPashtoIndo-European · 50 mSafeazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafekurKurdishIndo-European · 21 mSafeacmMesopotamian ArabicAfroasiatic · 15.7 m3 · Wider CommunicationazbSouth AzerbaijaniTurkic · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkmrKurmanjiIndo-European · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationalpbtSouthern PashtoIndo-European · 10.9 m1 · NationalckbCentral KurdishIndo-European · 7.2 m2 · Provincial