Iranian Persian

Iranian Persian,[2][3] Western Persian[4] or Western Farsi,[5] natively simply known as Persian (فارسی, Fārsi), refers to the varieties of the modern Persian language spoken in Iran and by minorities in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world. These are mutually intelligible with other varieties of Persian, including Afghanistan's Dari and Tajikistan's Tajik.

Iranian Persian (Western Persian)
فارسی, Fārsi
Fārsi written in Persian calligraphy (Nastaʿlīq)
Pronunciation	[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Native to	Iran (Persia)
Region	Western Asia
Native speakers	55.6 million (2015)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian Iranian Persian (Western Persian)
Dialects	Abadani Araki Bandari Basseri Esfahani Karbalai Kashani Kermani Mashhadi Qazvini Shirazi Tehrani Yazdi
Writing system	Perso-Arabic script
Official status
Official language in	Iran
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pes
Glottolog	west2369
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