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.

Bushehr officialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Hamedan Province languageMajority Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
East Azerbaijan Province officialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Awadh Subah hasLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Shahrekord languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Ardabil Province officialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Kiana possibleOrigin Persian language
Mysore army languageOfCommand Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Khwarazmian Empire language Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Zanjan Province officialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Spin Ghar languageOfName Persian language
subject surface form: Safed Koh
this entity surface form: Persian
Abdullah Khan II languageOfAdministration Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Herat Province officialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
William Jones (philologist) languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Southern Tat relatedTo Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Armeno-Tat linguisticInfluenceFrom Persian language
Mahabad languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Kalasha language hasLoanwordsFrom Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Kermanshah Province hasLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Mirjaveh languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Jasper hasOrigin Persian language
Amanullah Khan languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
Mughal Subah of Bihar languageOfAdministration Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
King of Oudh language Persian language
subject surface form: Wajid Ali Shah
this entity surface form: Persian
Arash languageOfOrigin Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Mazar-i-Sharif languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
Kamal hasLanguageOfUse Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Hamid Algar languageOfWorkOrName Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Charikar hasLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
Mogholi language influencedBy Persian language
Mogholi language influencedBy Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
Mogholi language lexicalInfluenceFrom Persian language
Mogholi language grammaticalInfluenceFrom Persian language
Mogholi language languageShiftTo Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
Mogholi language primaryContactLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Ardabil languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Lotfi languageOfWorkOrName Persian language
subject surface form: Lotfi A. Zadeh
this entity surface form: Persian
Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh languageSpoken Persian language
subject surface form: Lotfi A. Zadeh
this entity surface form: Persian
Toshihiko Izutsu languagesSpokenWritten Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
ECO Secretariat officialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Yazd Province hasOfficialLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Hotak invasion of Iran languageOfBelligerents Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
bimaristan hasEtymology Persian language
Mahmud Hotak languageSpoken Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Indian Ocean contact varieties of Hindi hasContactLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Murghab River region hasLanguage Persian language
Murghab River region hasLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Dari Persian
Mashhad-e Razavi hasLanguage Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian
Sanabad languageOfLocalPopulation Persian language
this entity surface form: Persian