Iranian Persian ( Persian : فارسی ایرانی , romanized : Fârsi-ye Irâni ), Western Persian or Western Farsi , natively simply known as Persian ( Persian : فارسی , romanized : Fârsi ), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world . These are intelligible with other varieties of Persian , including Afghanistan 's Dari and Tajikistan 's Tajik .
16-455: Iran's national language has been called, apart from Persian or Farsi , by names such as Iranian Persian , Western Persian and Western Farsi , exclusively. Officially, the national language of Iran is designated simply as Persian ( فارسی , fārsi ). The international language-encoding standard ISO 639-1 uses the code fa for the Persian language in general, as its coding system
32-620: A group of languages is used, it might be overridden for some specific languages by a new ISO 639-1 code. Part 3 (2007) of the standard, ISO 639-3 , aiming to cover all known natural languages , largely supersedes the ISO 639-2 three-letter code standard. There is no specification on treatment of macrolanguages (see ISO 639-3 ). Language code A language code is a code that assigns letters or numbers as identifiers or classifiers for languages . These codes may be used to organize library collections or presentations of data , to choose
48-536: Is also reflective of the political realities in the Safavid, Qajar and Pahlavi periods. Overall, Iran's Western Persian dialects appear to have changed more rapidly in lexicon and phonology than the Eastern Persian dialects of Afghanistan and Central Asia. There are phonological, lexical, and morphological differences between the Persian dialects of Iran and elsewhere. There are no significant differences in
64-461: Is mostly based on the native-language designations. The more detailed standard ISO 639-3 uses the code fas for the dialects spoken across Iran and Afghanistan. This consists of the individual languages Dari and Iranian Persian. The code pes is used for Iranian Persian, exclusively. On November 19, 2005, the Academy of Persian Language and Literature delivered a pronouncement on the name of
80-501: Is the Russian version of that website. See also IETF language tag . (Two-letter country-specific top-level-domain code suffixes are often different from these language-tag prefixes.) ISO 639, the original standard for language codes, was approved in 1967. It was split into parts, and in 2002 ISO 639-1 became the new revision of the original standard. The last code added was ht , representing Haitian Creole on 2003-02-26. The use of
96-578: The Tehrani dialect in relation to the Persian in Iran. The following are the primary phonological differences between Iran's mainstream Persian and the Persian dialects of Afghanistan and Tajikistan (Dari and Tajik), as well as Classical Persian. ISO 639-1 ISO 639-1:2002 , Codes for the representation of names of languages—Part 1: Alpha-2 code , is the first part of the ISO 639 series of international standards for language codes . Part 1 covers
112-730: The Caribbean, and Europe. Spanish spoken in Mexico will be slightly different from Spanish spoken in Peru . Different regions of Mexico will have slightly different dialects and accents of Spanish. A language code scheme might group these all as "Spanish" for choosing a keyboard layout, most as "Spanish" for general usage, or separate each dialect to allow region-specific variation. There are 183 two-letter codes registered as of June 2021. See: List of ISO 639 language codes See: List of ISO 639-2 codes See: List of ISO 639-3 codes Navigate also
128-459: The Persian language, rejecting any use of the word Farsi (instead of English Persian , German Persisch , Spanish persa , French persan , etc.) in foreign languages. The announcement reads: Supporting this announcement, gradually other institutions and literary figures separately took similar actions throughout the world. The main dynamics of the linguistic evolution of modern Persian are political and social changes such as population shifts,
144-455: The advancement of particular regions, and the rise of ideological influences. In Iran, the Safavid period in particular initiated a number of sociolinguistic changes that affected the country's national language, reflecting the political and ideological separation of Iran from Central Asia and Afghanistan. It is likely that the multiple relocations of the capital city of Iran itself influenced
160-502: The correct localizations and translations in computing , and as a shorthand designation for longer forms of language names. Language code schemes attempt to classify the complex world of human languages, dialects , and variants . Most schemes make some compromises between being general and being complete enough to support specific dialects. For example, Spanish is spoken in over 20 countries in North America, Central America,
176-479: The development of a distinctive metropolitan sociolect that would affect Persian dialects throughout the country. During the late 12th and late 15th or early 17th centuries in Iran, the vowel repertory of the Persian language was reduced and a few consonants were altered in most of Iran's Western Persian dialects, while these features have been predominantly preserved in the Eastern dialects of Dari and Tajik up until
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#1732773072929192-709: The dialect of Dari spoken in Western Afghanistan stands in between Dari and Iranian Persian. For instance, the Herati dialect shares vocabulary and phonology with both Dari and Iranian Persian. Likewise, the dialect of Persian in Eastern Iran, for instance in Mashhad , is quite similar to the Herati dialect of Afghanistan. The Kabuli dialect has become the standard model of Dari in Afghanistan, as has
208-526: The present day. From the time of the Turco-Mongol invasions to the Safavid and subsequent Turkic-speaking dynasties, Persian received a number of lexical borrowings from Turkish, although never as much as those from Arabic. However, in contrast with the Tajik dialects of Central Asia, which are heavily influenced by Turkic, Persian in Iran has had its Turkic borrowings largely declined and assimilated. This
224-402: The registration of "set 1" two-letter codes. There are 183 two-letter codes registered as of June 2021. The registered codes cover the world's major languages. These codes are a useful international and formal shorthand for indicating languages. Many multilingual web sites use these codes to prefix URLs of specific language versions of their web sites, for example, "ru." before the website name
240-680: The standard was encouraged by IETF language tags , introduced in RFC 1766 in March 1995, and continued by RFC 3066 from January 2001 and RFC 4646 from September 2006. The current version is RFC 5646 from September 2009. Infoterm (International Information Center for Terminology) is the registration authority for ISO 639-1 codes. New ISO 639-1 codes are not added if an ISO 639-2 "set 2" three-letter code exists, so systems that use ISO 639-1 and 639-2 codes, with 639-1 codes preferred, do not have to change existing codes. If an ISO 639-2 code that covers
256-588: The written forms of Iran's standard Persian and Afghanistan's standard Dari, other than regional idiomatic phrases. However, Iran's commonly spoken Persian is considerably different in pronunciation and some syntactic features from the dialects spoken in Afghanistan and Central Asia. The dialects of Dari spoken in Northern, Central and Eastern Afghanistan, for example in Kabul , Mazar , and Badakhshan , have distinct features compared to Iran's Standard Persian. However,
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