perTechnical information about ISO 639 language code per
The table below provides technical details for the Persian language, designated by the per code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Persian Native فارسی |
| Text direction | Right-to-Left |
| Language varieties | Iranian Persian (Western Persian, Farsi)Dari Persian (Eastern Persian)Tajiki Persian |
| Related languages | LuriKurdish (Sorani)MazandaraniGilakiPashto |
| Key facts | Uses the Perso-Arabic script in Iran and Afghanistan, while Tajiki is written in CyrillicClassical Persian poetry, from Ferdowsi to Hafez, is central to the canon of world literatureThe language has no grammatical gender and only remnants of noun casePersian vocabulary has profoundly influenced Urdu, Hindi, and Ottoman TurkishThe ezāfe construction links nouns to adjectives or possessors, a typologically distinctive feature within Indo-European |
| Sample phrase | سلام، حالت چطوره؟ |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Persian language, identified by the code per, 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: per for bibliographic purposes and fas for terminology uses.
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