Persian

Primary language family: Indo-European

Subfamily: Indo-Iranian

Endonymic glossonym: فارسی (fārsi), форсӣ (forsī)
Exonymic glossonyms: Persian, Farsi, Perzisch, Persisk, Persisch, Persa, Persiano

Approximate number of native speakers = 70,000,000
Approximate total number of speakers = 110,000,000

 

Subtypes (ranked by approximate number of speakers)

• Persian, Iranian (A language of Iran) 
• Dari (A language of Afghanistan) 
• Aimaq (A language of Afghanistan)
• Hazaragi (A language of Afghanistan)
• Pahlavani (A language of Afghanistan)
• Tajik (A language of Tajikistan)
• Bukharic (A language of Israel) 
• Dzhidi (A language of Israel)
• Dehwari (A language of Pakistan)

Geographical distribution of Persian speaking populations

The modern flag of Iran / Persia 

The modern flag of Afghanistan

The modern flag of Tajikistan

The modern flag of Israel

  The modern flag of Pakistan