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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 154. Chapters: Latin, Japanese language, Italian language, Persian language, Basque language, Korean language, Hungarian language, Punjabi language, Turkish language, Tamil language, Kannada, Maltese language, Armenian language, Telugu language, Malayalam, Nepali language, Kazakh language, Marathi language, Kurdish language, Mongolian language, Tigrinya language, Gujarati language, Manchu language, Pashto language, Quechua languages, Konkani language, Sicilian language, Burmese language, Hopi language, Comanche language, Azerbaijani language, Sinhala language, Choctaw language, Aymara language, Oriya language, Sindhi language, Assamese language, Avar language, Dogon languages, Enets language, Bonan language, Jarawara dialect, Kurukh language, Golin language, Tamang language, Ika language, Zay language, Kachari language. Excerpt: Persian (, IPA: ) is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence. The Persian language is classified as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official religious and literary language of Sassanid Persia, itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of Persian Empire in the Achaemenid era. Persian is a pluricentric language and its grammar is similar to that of many contemporary European languages. The name of the Persian language derives from its etymological root P rs ( ). Persian has ca. 110 million native speakers, holding official status respectively in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. For centuries Persian has also been a prestigious cultural language in Central Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Persian has had a considerable influence on neighboring languages, particularly the Turkic languages in Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia...
