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Preferred term

fasPersian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Persian (, ) is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence. The Persian language is classified as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official religious and literary language of Sassanid Persia, itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Persian Empire in the Achaemenid era. Persian is a pluricentric language and its grammar is similar to that of many contemporary European languages.

Entry terms

  • Persian language

ISO 639-1 code

  • fa

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • per

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • fas

ISO 639-3 code

  • fas

Notation

  • fas

In other languages

  • Persan

    French

  • persan
  • Persisch

    German

  • Persische Sprache
  • persiano

    Italian

  • Lingua persiana
  • Portuguese

  • Língua persa
  • persa

    Spanish

  • Idioma persa

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fas

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