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Preferred term

Persian  

Definition

  • Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages and the only South-Western Iranian language. Apart from being the majority language and the national language in Iran (Persia), a different dialect is spoken in Afghanistan (officially known as Dari since 1958 for political reasons) and in Tajikistan (officially known as Tajiki Persian since the Soviet era for political reasons), and in some other regions. Persian is a pluricentric language and its grammar is similar to that of many contemporary European languages. Modern Iranian Persian and Afghan Persian are written using a modified variant of the Arabic alphabet. Tajik Persian is typically written in a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Narrower concepts

Identifier

  • FAS

Notation

  • fa
  • FA
  • fas
  • per
  • PERSAN

In other languages

  • персийски

    Bulgarian

  • perzijski

    Croatian

  • perština

    Czech

  • farsi

    Danish

  • Perzisch

    Dutch

  • pärsia keel

    Estonian

  • persia

    Finnish

  • persan

    French

  • Persisch

    German

  • περσικά

    Greek

  • perzsa

    Hungarian

  • persneska

    Icelandic

  • Peirsis

    Irish

  • persiano

    Italian

  • persiešu valoda

    Latvian

  • persų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • персиски

    Macedonian

  • Persjan

    Maltese

  • persisk

    Norwegian

  • فارسی

    Persian

  • fārsi
  • perski

    Polish

  • perso

    Portuguese

  • persană

    Romanian

  • персидский

    Russian

  • персијски

    Serbian

  • perzijski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • perzština

    Slovak

  • perzijščina

    Slovenian

  • persa

    Spanish

  • persiska

    Swedish

  • farsça

    Turkish

  • фарсі

    Ukrainian

  • persišćina

    Upper Sorbian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/FAS

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