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                                                     Farsi














                          “Stay close to any sounds that make you glad that you are


                          alive.”


                                                              ‐Hafiz (14  century)
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                   GENERAL INFORMATION


                     Number of speakers:  More than 56 million speakers worldwide.  140,695 Persian


                       speakers in U.S. (Farsi, Dari, Iranian, Tajik) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011).

                     Writing system: Includes but not limited to Arabic script with 32 letters (compared to 28

                       Arabic letters). Written from right to left.


                     Language Family: Indo—European—Indo‐Iranian—Iranian—Western—Southwestern—

                       Persian


                     Official language in: Iran (Persian) and Afghanistan (Dari)
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