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Persian studies (Persian: مطالعات فارسی) is the study of the Persian language and its literature specifically. It is differentiated from Iranian studies which is a broader, more interdisciplinary subject that focuses more on the histories and cultures of all Iranian peoples .
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world.. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers.
Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship.. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California, specifically Los Angeles.
"New Persian" is the name given to the final stage of development of Persian language. The term Persian is an English derivation of Latin Persiānus, the adjectival form of Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís (Περσίς), [12] a Hellenized form of Old Persian Pārsa (𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), [13] which means "Persia" (a region in southwestern Iran corresponding to modern-day Fars province).
Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of February 2025, it has 1,029,456 articles, 1,373,276 registered users, and 95,882 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia ...
Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature; Encyclopedia of Iran and Islam; The Encyclopedia of Iranian Old Music (2000) Encyclopedia of Islam World; Encyclopedia Islamica; The Persian Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of Sophistication (2003) Treasure Box of Knowledge (1993) Persian Wikipedia (2004)
Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...
Phonetically, as one of the eastern Persian dialects, the Aimaq dialect resembles a formal or classical form of Persian. Vowels: The "majhul" vowels ē / ī and ō / ū are still kept separate, whereas in western Persian they are merged as ī and ū respectively. For instance, the identically written words شیر 'lion' and 'milk' are in ...