Language code: fa
Technical information about ISO 639 language code fa
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The table below provides technical details for the Persian language, designated by the fa code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Persian Native فارسی |
| Family | Indo-Iranian |
| Text direction | Right-to-Left |
| Language varieties | Western Persian (Iranian Persian)Dari Persian (Afghan Persian)Tajik Persian |
| Related languages | LuriTatKurdishPashto |
| Key facts | Uses a modified Arabic script with four additional lettersClassical Persian poetry is still generally intelligible to modern speakersPersian nouns have no grammatical genderThe basic word order is Subject-Object-VerbPersian has contributed thousands of loanwords to languages such as Urdu and Turkish |
| Sample phrase | سلام، حال شما چطور است؟ |
| Character encodings | |
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Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family, more specifically to the Indo-Iranian subgroup. It is officially used in Iran, while variations of Persian, such as Dari and Tajik, are officially used in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, respectively. In Iran and Afghanistan, it is written using the Persian alphabet, whereas in Tajikistan, it is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 70 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Persian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ