Portal:Persian

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Persian

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Persian The Persian Language

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Persian is an Iranian language.

Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)^* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as parts in Pakistan, and by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. It is derived from the language of the ancient Persian People. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages family.

Persian and its varieties have official-language status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. According to CIA World Factbook, based on old data, there are approximately 62 million native speakers of Persian in w:IranIran,^[1] Afghanistan,^[2] Tajikistan^[3] and Uzbekistan^[4] and about the same number of people in other parts of the world speak Persian. UNESCO was asked to select Persian as one of its languages in 2006.^[5] Persian has also been taught in the Pakistani School curriculum until the Benazir Bhutto's government changed it.

Persian has been a medium for literary and scientific contributions to the Islamic world as well as the Western. It has had an influence on certain neighbouring languages, particularly the Turkic languages of Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia. It has had a lesser influence on Arabic and other languages of Mesopotamia.

For five centuries prior to the British colonization of present day Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, Persian was widely used as a second or first language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in the subcontinent and became the "official language" under the Mughal emperors. Only in 1843 did the subcontinent begin conducting business in English.^[6] Evidence of Persian's historical influence in the region can be seen in the extent of its influence on Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and the Sindhi language, as well as the popularity that Persian literature still enjoys in the region.

Link to Wikipedia in Persian

Learning

To show your interest in the Persian Language, sign up at the Persian stream. This will provide a record of who is learning Persian, so you can see who else out there speaks Persian and can speak to them.