History
Languages
Persian is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... The relevance of particular information in (or previously in) this article or section is disputed. ...

• Fārsī (Pārsī)
  • Grammar
    • Nouns
    • Verbs
  • Vocabulary
  • Pronunciation
• Darī
• Tājikī
• Hazāragī
• Bukhori

Dialects
Persian (فارسی), also known as Farsi (local name), Parsi (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (an Afghan dialect), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. ... Persian grammar is similar to many other Indo-European languages, especially those in the Indo-Iranian family. ... The Persian language has six vowels and twenty-three consonants, including one glide //, and two affricates // and //. Vowels Diachronically, Persian possessed a distinction of length in its underlying vowel inventory, contrasting the long vowels , , with the short vowels , , . In Modern Persian, this distinction of quantity is neutralized in most environments... Dari is the local written name for the Persian language in Afghanistan used mainly in official papers. ... Tajik or Tadjik (тоҷикӣ, تاجیکی, tojikí) is a descendant of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia. ... Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language, with the main deviation from Farsi and Dari being a larger borrowing of Turkic and Mongolian vocabulary. ... Bukhori, also known as Bukharic or Bukharan, is an Indo-Iranian language. ...

• Dialects and varieties

Writing systems

• Persian alphabet
• Tajik alphabet