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Persian is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Persian and variations have official-language status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. It is the 'lingua franca' of Afghanistan - the main second language of non-native speakers.
There are over 70 million native speakers of Persian in total in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and a similar number of people in other parts of the world.
Persian has been a medium for literary and scientific contributions to the Islamic and Western worlds and has influenced neighbouring languages, particularly the Turkic languages of Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia.
Persian was widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent, took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in South Asia and became the "official language" under the Mughal emperors. From the mid 19th century the Indian subcontinent began to conduct business in English, but Persian ('Dari' = 'court language') continued to be the language of administration in Kashmir until after 1900.

In English this language is historically known as "Persian". Many Iranians migrating to the West (particularly to the USA) after the 1979 revolution continued to use 'Farsi' to identify their language in English. "Farsi" is encountered frequently in the linguistic literature as a name for the language, used both by Iranian and by foreign authors, and is preferred by some.

There are three modern varieties for the standard Persian:
• Modern Iranian Persian is the variety of Persian spoken in Iran, also known as Farsi or Persian.
• Dari is the local name for the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
• Tajik is the variety of Persian used in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia, but unlike the Persian used in Iran and Afghanistan, it is written in the Cyrillic script rather than Arabic script.

Dialects of this language include the following:
• Western Persian, or Farsi (in Iran)
• Eastern Persian or Dari (in Afghanistan)
• Tajik (in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)
• Hazaragi ( locally in Afghanistan)
• Aimaq ( locally in Afghanistan)
• Bukharic (locally in Israel, Uzbekistan)
• Darwazi (locally in Afghanistan, Tajikistan)
• Dzhidi (locally in Israel, Iran)
• Pahlavani (locally in parts of Sistan and Afghanistan)

Persian makes extensive use of word building and combining affixes, stems, nouns and adjectives. Persian frequently joins up components to form new words from nouns, adjectives, and verbal stems. New words are extensively formed by compounding – two existing words combining into a new one, as is common in German.

There are many words in the Persian language, mostly coming from Arabic, but also from English, French, German, and the Turkic languages, as well as the ancient languages of the region. Persian has likewise influenced the vocabularies of other languages, especially other Indo-Iranian languages like Hindi, Urdu, etc, as well as Turkic languages like Turkish and Uzbek, Afro-Asiatic languages like Assyrian and Arabic. Several languages of southwest Asia have also been influenced, including Armenian and Georgian. Persian has even influenced the Malay spoken in Malaysia and Swahili in Africa. Many Persian words have also found their way into other Indian and European languages including English.

The vast majority of modern Iranian Farsi and Dari text is written in a form of the Arabic alphabet. In recent years the Latin alphabet has been used by some for technological or internationalisation reasons. Tajik, which is considered by some linguists to be a Persian dialect influenced by Russian and the Turkic languages of Central Asia, adopted the Latin script in the 1920's and has been written with the Cyrillic alphabet in Tajikistan since around 1940.

Modern Iranian Persian and Dari are normally written using a modified variant of the Arabic alphabet with different pronunciation and more letters, whereas the Tajik variety is typically written in a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Translation projects undertaken in Farsi include web site content, sales and marketing material, documentation requirements for engineering and manufacturing.

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