Western Farsi
Western Farsi is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Türkiye, by about 52.8 million people.
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Persian has changed remarkably little in a thousand years: Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh, finished around 1010, is still fairly easy for Iranians to read. Its sparing use of Arabic loans is often credited with helping Persian keep its own character.
Iranian Persian (فارسی ایرانی, Fârsi-ye Irâni; Iranian Persian pronunciation: [fɒːɾˈsiːje ʔiː.ɹɒːˈníː]), Western Persian or Western Farsi, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world. These are intelligible with other varieties of Persian, including Afghanistan's Dari and Tajikistan's Tajik. When contrasted with Dari and Tajik, it is often simply referred to as Farsi (فارسی, Fârsi).
Iranian Persian serves as the predominant and official spoken language in Iran, with 61.5 million mother tongue speakers in 2023 and 17.2 million second language speakers in 2021.
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تمام افراد بشر آزاد بدنیا میایند و از لحاظ حیثیت و حقوق با هم برابرند. همه دارای عقل و وجدان میباشند و باید نسبت بیکدیگر با روح برادری رفتار کنند.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Western Farsi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | مَادَر | mādar |
| father | پَدَر | padar |
| child | بَچِّه | bačče |
| man | مَرْد | mard |
| woman | زَن | zan |
| person | شَخْص | šaxs |
| name | نام | nâm |
| friend | دوسْت | dōst |
| eye | چَشْم | čašm |
| ear | گوش | guš |
| nose | بِینِی | bīnī |
| tooth | دَنْدَان | dandān |
| tongue | زَبَان | zabān |
| hand | دَسْت | dast |
| heart | دِل | dil |
| head | سَر | sar |
| blood | خُون | xūn |
| bone | اُسْتُخوَان | ustuxān |
| skin | پوسْت | pōst |
| knee | زانو | zânu |
| breast | پِسْتان | pestân |
| liver | جِگَر | jigar |
| water | آب | āb |
| fire | آتَش | ātaš |
| sun | خورشید | xoršid |
| moon | مَاه | māh |
| star | سِتَارَه | sitāra |
| sky | آسْمان | âsmân |
| rain | بَارَان | bārān |
| snow | بَرْف | barf |
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