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Language code: fas

Technical information about ISO 639 language code fas

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The table below provides technical details for the Persian language, designated by the fas code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

fas (Terminology)

Name

Official

Persian

Native

فارسی

Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
TehraniEsfahaniShiraziKermaniYazdiMashhadi
Related languages
DariTajikLuriTat PersianHazaragi
Key facts
Uses the Perso-Arabic script with four extra letters for /p č ž g/Modern Persian vocabulary contains extensive Arabic loanwords but preserves an Indo-Iranian coreClassical Persian poetry by writers such as Rumi and Hafez is globally renownedModern Persian has lost grammatical gender and most case endings found in Old PersianDefault word order is subject–object–verb, though it is often flexible for emphasis.
Sample phrase

سلام، چطوری؟

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Persian language, identified by the code fas, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Persian language: fas for terminology purposes and per for bibliographic uses.

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