Language · Indo-European
Persian
فارسی – its own name
Official or co-official in 2 countries. Listed in 9 countries.
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 89 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Arabic
Where it is spoken
- Official 1
- Co-official 1
- Widely used 1
- Minority 6
Official
- Iran 75% 66 million
Co-official
- Afghanistan 50% 20 million
Widely used
- Qatar 11% 281 thousand
Minority
- Pakistan 0.7% 1.7 million
- Iraq 0.9% 366 thousand
- Canada 0.6% 237 thousand
- United Arab Emirates 1.9% 191 thousand
- Tajikistan 0.8% 81 thousand
- Oman 0.9% 37 thousand