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How widely spoken is Arabic in Iran?
| Languages of Iran | |
|---|---|
| Official | Persian |
| Main | Persian 53\%, Azerbaijani and other Turkic dialects 18\% (e.g Khalaj, Qashqai, Turkmen), Kurdish 10\%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 7\%, Luri 6\%, Arabic 2\%, Balochi 2\%, and other languages (Tati, Talysh, Armenian, Georgian, Neo-Aramaic, Circassian) 1\% |
Which language is spoken in Iran?
Persian
Iran/Official languages
Persian, known to its native Iranian speakers as Farsi, is the official language of modern day Iran, parts of Afghanistan and the central Asian republic of Tajikistan. Persian is one of the most important members of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Can Iranian understand Arabic?
Iranians don’t understand Arabic language at all. They share only alphabets and some loanwords from Arabic into Persian language (Parsi / Farsi). The shared words have different meaning from the Arabic words. Parsi which is called Farsi by Arab since there is no P word in Arabic language.
Is Iranian like Arabic?
Arabic and Persian are totally different languages, but both with a mostly common alphabet, overlapping vocabulary (nearly all going from Arabic to Persian), and with ties to Islam. The similarity is a bit like that between English and French.
Does Iraq speak Arabic?
While there are several regional Iraqi dialects of Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic is used for most formal and mass media communication. Arabic is a highly gendered language; due to this, differ- ent forms are used when speaking to men or women (see Arabic word list). Kurdish is the second most common language in Iraq.
Is Farsi and Arabic different?
Language Groups and Families In fact, Farsi is not only in a separate language group from Arabic but it’s also in a separate language family. Arabic is in the Afro-Asiatic family while Farsi is in the Indo-European family.
Is Farsi Persian or Arabic?
Persian, also known as Farsi is an Indo-Iranian language of the Indo-European language family. Arabic is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Persian has around 70 million native speakers in Iran, Afganistan and Tajikistan. In Afganistan it’s known as Dari and in Tajikistan as Tajik.