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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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