Western Persian

Western Persian
Farsi
فارسی
Pronunciation [fɒːɾˈsiː]
Native to Iran, Iraq
Region Western Asia
Native speakers
51.6 million (2015)[1]
Dialects Abadani, Araki, Bandari, Esfahani, Karbalai, Kashani, Kermani, Mashhadi, Qazvini, Shirazi, Tehrani, Yazdi
Perso-Arabic script
Official status
Official language in
Iran
Regulated by Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pes
Glottolog west2369[2]

Western Persian or Iranian Persian is the most widely spoken dialect of Persian.[3] It is spoken in Iran and by minorities in Iraq and the Persian Gulf states.[3] It is one of three major dialects of Persian.

Western Persian is also known as Iranian Persian, Farsi,[3] Western Farsi, or simply Persian.

References

  1. Western Persian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Western Farsi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 3 "Persian". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 16 July 2013.


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