Language Atlas

How Languages Connect
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Language

Iranian Persian

Iranian Languages

Iranian Persian, also called Western Persian or Western Farsi, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
pes 1
Speaker Count
83,000,000 1
Ethnologue total figure, 2021-2023.
Region
Iran 1
Iranian Persian
Filter Results1 entry
Connections

In Family

Source Wikipedia: Iranian Persian

Written In

Arabic Script, Scripts

Persian is written in the Perso-Arabic script, an extended form of the Arabic alphabet.

In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Iranian Persian
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Iranian Persian ..., Western Persian or Western Farsi, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    pes
  • Infobox, Speakers (Total)
    83 million (2021-2023)
  • Infobox, Region
    West Asia (Iran)
  • In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
    Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > Western > Southwestern Iranian > Persian > Iranian Persian
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.