Iran Language Map
Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. It is the language of Iran (formerly Persia) and is also widely spoken in Afghanistan and, in an archaic form, in Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountain region.
Persian is spoken today primarily in Iran and Afghanistan, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates), as well as large communities in the USA.
Total numbers of speakers is high: over 50 million Farsi speakers (about 50% of Iran’s population); over 7 million Dari Persian speakers in Afghanistan (25% of the population); and about 2 million Dari Persian speakers in Pakistan.
In Afghanistan Farsi is spoken almost everywhere and close to 60 % of Afghanistan’s total population speak Farsi or Dari.
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Click on a language area to see each language’s description, or choose from the list below.
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Western
</td> <td>Eastern
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Parthian*
</td> <td>Scythian*
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Median*
</td> <td>Sacian*
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Old Persian*
</td> <td>Bactrian*
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Middle Persian (Pahlavi)*
</td> <td>Sogdian*
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kurdish
</td> <td>Khwaresmian*
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Baluchi
</td> <td>Pashto
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Talysh
</td> <td>Pamir languages
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gillani
</td> <td>Ossetic
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mazanderani
</td> <td>Yagnobi
</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ormuri
</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Persian (Farsi)
</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Dari
</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Tadjik
</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Luri and Bachtiari
</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Tati
</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>
Kumzari
</td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
