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Persian, also called Farsi, is a Western Iranian language of the Indo-European family, spoken and used officially in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties: Iranian Persian, Afghan Persian, known as Dari, and Tajiki Persian, known as Tajik. Modern Persian continues Middle Persian, the official language of the Sasanian Empire, which itself continued the Old Persian of the Achaemenid Empire. New Persian literature was first recorded in the ninth century, after the Muslim conquest of Persia, in the Perso-Arabic script, and it includes the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, the works of Rumi and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In this atlas the general Persian entry stands for records that name Persian without a stage, while Classical Persian and Middle Persian have their own entries.

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Attested in Region

Persia, Regions

Spoken and official in Iran, with Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

Source Persian language (Wikipedia)

Language Of

Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs), Scriptures & Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

Kitab-i-Iqan, Scriptures & Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

Panj Sha'n (Five Grades), Scriptures & Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

The Bayan, Scriptures & Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

The Conference of the Birds, Esoteric Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

The Hidden Words, Scriptures & Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

The Masnavi, Esoteric Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

The Masnavi, Scriptures & Texts

Entity-backed identity for the language enum value this record already carries, resolved to the live divinity language entity that value names, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket conversion (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decisions 2026-09-28, w-bucketconv-divlang2-0929, mapping corrected). The language fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the record unchanged; this relationship only adds the durable entity identity the value already names.

Originated In

Persia, Regions

The article states that Persian originated in the region of Fars, Persia.

Source Persian language (Wikipedia)

Read in Region

Anatolia and Asia Minor, Regions

Used by the Ottomans in Anatolia as a language of bureaucracy.

Source Persian language (Wikipedia)
Indian Subcontinent, Regions

Used by the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughals in the Indian subcontinent.

Source Persian language (Wikipedia)

Uses This Script

Arabic, Scripts & Magical Alphabets

Written in Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivative of the Arabic script.

Source Persian language (Wikipedia)
Cyrillic, Scripts & Magical Alphabets

Written in Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a derivative of the Cyrillic script.

Source Persian language (Wikipedia)
Sources
Persian language (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Persian language, lead paragraph
    Persian, also known as Farsi, is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
  • Originated In: Persia, Persian language, origins
    It originated in the region of Fars (Persia) in southwestern Iran.
  • Read in Region: Anatolia and Asia Minor, Persian language, official use
    It was used officially as a language of bureaucracy even by non-native speakers, such as the Ottomans in Anatolia, the Delhi Sultanates and Mughals in the Indian subcontinent, and the Pashtuns in Afghanistan.
  • Read in Region: Indian Subcontinent, Persian language, official use
    It was used officially as a language of bureaucracy even by non-native speakers, such as the Ottomans in Anatolia, the Delhi Sultanates and Mughals in the Indian subcontinent, and the Pashtuns in Afghanistan.
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