Persian dialects and varieties

Persian
Fārsi
فارسی
Fārsi written in Persian (Nastaʿlīq script)
Pronunciation	[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Native to	Iran Afghanistan (as Dari) Tajikistan (as Tajik) Uzbekistan (as Tajik and Bukhori) Iraq Russia Azerbaijan
Native speakers	45 million (2007) – 60 million (2009) (110 million total speakers)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian
Early forms	Old Persian Middle Persian
Standard forms	Western Persian Dari Tajik
Dialects	Western Persian Dari Tajik Bukhori Pahlavani Hazaragi Aimaq Judeo-Persian Dehwari Judeo-Tat Caucasian Tat Armeno-Tat
Writing system	Persian alphabet (Iran and Afghanistan) Tajik alphabet (Tajikistan) Hebrew Persian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Iran (as Persian)  Afghanistan (as Dari)  Tajikistan (as Tajik)
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Iran)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	fa
ISO 639-2	per (B) fas (T)
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual codes:  – Western Persian  – Dari language (Afghan Persian)  – Tajiki  – Aimaq dialect  – Bukhori dialect  – Hazaragi dialect  – Judeo-Persian  – Pahlavani  – Dehwari  – Judeo-Tat  – Caucasian Tat
Glottolog	fars1254
Linguasphere	58-AAC (Wider Persian)  > 58-AAC-c (Central Persian)
Areas with significant numbers of Persian speakers (including dialects)
Countries where Persian is an official language
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Persian (/ˈpɜːrʒən/ or /ˈpɜːrʃən/), also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی fārsi [fɒːɾˈsiː] ( listen)), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan (officially known as Dari since 1958), and Tajikistan (officially known as Tajiki since the Soviet era), and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and considered part of Greater Iran. It is written in the Persian alphabet, a modified variant of the Arabic script.