Persian language

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Persian language is a major modern Iranian language spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, known for its rich literary tradition and historical influence across the Middle East and Central Asia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
literary language
standard language
alsoKnownAs Dari
Persian language
surface form: Farsi

Tajik
borrowedFromLanguage Arabic
English
French
developedFrom Southwestern Iranian languages
surface form: Middle Persian

Old Persian
eraOfOrigin early Islamic period
hasAncestor Southwestern Iranian languages
surface form: Middle Persian

Iranian languages
surface form: Old Persian
hasDialect Persian language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dari Persian

Hazaragi
Persian language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Iranian Persian

Southwestern Iranian languages
surface form: Luri Persian

Persian language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tajik Persian
hasMorphologicalType fusional language
hasNotableAuthor Ferdowsi
Hafez
Omar Khayyam
Rumi
Saadi
hasNotableWork Bustan
Hafez
surface form: Divan of Hafez

Gulistan
Rumi
surface form: Masnavi

Shahnameh
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel length distinction
hasSyntacticFeature subject–object–verb word order
hasWritingDirection right-to-left
historicalRole administrative language in Safavid Empire
court language in Mughal India
literary lingua franca of the Islamic world
influencedLanguage Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani

Hindi
Kurdish
Ottoman Turkish
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
ISO639-1Code fa
ISO639-2Code fas
per
ISO639-3Code fas
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
nativeName فارسی
officialLanguageOf Afghanistan
Iran
Tajikistan
primaryCountry Afghanistan
Iran
Tajikistan
region Afghanistan
Caucasus
Central Asia
Iran
Middle East
South Asia
Tajikistan
regulates Academy of Persian Language and Literature
scriptVariant Perso-Arabic script
Cyrillic script
surface form: Tajik Cyrillic script
spokenBy Aimaqs
Hazaras
Persians
Tajiks
standardFormBasedIn Tehran dialect
subfamily Southwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn Central Asia
Greater Iran
South Asia
surface form: Indian subcontinent (historically)
writingSystem Arabic script
Cyrillic script
Persian alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Khusrav usedInLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
historical region of Persian Iraq (Iraq-e Ajam) language Persian language
subject surface form: Persian Iraq
this entity surface form: Persian
Treaty of 1799 language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Nizam’s court languageUsed Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Shah hasLanguageOrigin Persian language
Firozkoh languageOfCulture Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Firozkoh languageOfAdministration Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Badi al-Zaman Mirza languageOfEnvironment Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Hyderabadi Muslims historicalLanguageInfluence Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Gilan Province language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Galeshi (Rudbari) dialect hasContactWith Persian language
Galeshi (Rudbari) dialect influencedBy Persian language
Guilaki differentFrom Persian language
Guilaki hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Persian language
Guilaki hasDistinctPronounsFrom Persian language
Guilaki hasDistinctNumeralsFrom Persian language
Lower Zab hasNameInLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Purgi language hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Shahi hasLanguageOfOrigin Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Golkonda languageOfHistoricalAdministration Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Usuli languageOfScholarship Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Hamadan University of Medical Sciences operatesInLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Iranian nationalism drawsOn Persian language
Badauni language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Divine Faith languageOfUse Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Isami languageOfWork Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
Arabic Yaʼ usedInLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Rogan josh originLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Qashqai Turkish influencedBy Persian language
Qashqai Turkish hasLoanwordsFrom Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Suhrawardi languageOfWriting Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Sadegh Hedayat nativeLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Sadegh Hedayat languageOfWorkOrName Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Ahmad Shamlu language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Darius hasOrigin Persian language
Darius usedIn Persian language
Shohreh Aghdashloo languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Divan (Persian) language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Wafa Begum languageOfContext Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Qashqai language influencedBy Persian language
Qashqai language hasLoanwordsFrom Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Sophia usedInLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Bushehr Province language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Abu Ali languageOfWork Persian language
subject surface form: Avicenna
this entity surface form: Persian
nişancı (chancellor) hasLanguage Persian language
subject surface form: nişancı
this entity surface form: Persian
Mazanderani influencedBy Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Jibal language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Khalsa Sarkar officialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Zubin hasOrigin Persian language