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Interesting Facts About the Farsi Language

The Persian language is spoken in Central and Southwest Asia. In Persian, the language is called Farsi within Iran, so “Farsi” and “Persian” are different names for the same language. Persian is a multi-centric language, it contains several smaller and independent languages.

• The Farsi language is named for the ancient Persian province of Fars in southern Iran.
• Around 70 million people around the world speak Persian or Farsi as their mother tongue.
• Added to this are 50 million people who have learned it as a second language.

Persian is limited to the Asian region. This includes the following countries where the language is spoken: 

• Persian is spoken primarily in Iran and is spoken by 41 million people who live there.
• 15 million people living in Afghanistan speak a similar type of Farsi, known as Farsi-yi-Dari. This language is very similar to Farsi. Afghan citizens often refer to him as Darito differentiate him from Iranian Persian.
• There are also Farsi-speaking peoples in Central Asia, in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
• The language is also represented in Iraq and the Gulf States (United Arab Emirates, Kuwait).
• Farsi is also spoken in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Russia.
• Communities that use the language to communicate have also developed in Europe and the United States.