Farsi, Western > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Farsi, Western
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Persian; New Persian; Parsi; Irani; Iranian Persian; Tehrani Persian; Farsi; Farsi (Western); Neupersisch
Spoken in:
USA, Iran, Sweden, Australia, Azerbaijan, Spain, India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, France, Oman, Turkmenistan, Germany, Israel, Uzbekistan, Denmark, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Turkey, Austria, Greece
Number of speakers:
22,000,000 in Iran (1997), increasing. 800,000 Eastern Fasi in Khorasan, Gilan, Tat, Bakhtiari, Lur. Population total all countries: 23,879,300
(Ethnologue)
Code:
pes
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Persian; Permian (tatt)
Child Dialects:
Kashani (pes-kas)
Yazdi (pes-yaz)
Tehrani (pes-teh)
Bandari; Bandar-Abbasi (pes-ban)
Old Shirazi (pes-old)
Araki (pes-ara)
Ketabi (pes-ket)
Shirazi (pes-shi)
Kermani (pes-ker)
Mashadi; Meshed (pes-mas)
Basseri (pes-bas)
Shahrudi Kazeruni; Shahrudi (pes-sha)
Mahalhamadani; Mahallati (pes-mah)
Qazvini (pes-qaz)
Esfahani (pes-esf)
Shirazjahromi (pes-shz)
Sedehi; Seden (pes-sed)

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