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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 July 2024, it has 1,007,180 articles, 1,324,362 registered users, and 91,262 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia ...
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 ...
The Persians or Iranian Persians ( / ˈpɜːrʒənz / PUR-zhənz or / ˈpɜːrʃənz / PUR-shənz) are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. [4] They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language [6] [7] [8] as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.
Iranian Persian ( Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized :Pârsi-ye Irâni ), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian ( Persian: فارسی, romanized :Pârsi ), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities ...
BBC Persian Television. BBC Persian ( Persian: بیبیسی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and the world. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom .
Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. A scene from the Shahnameh describing the valour of Rustam. Persian literature [a] comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. [1] [2] [3] It spans over two-and-a-half millennia.
Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire ). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as ariya (Iranian). [1] [2] Old Persian is close to both Avestan and the language of the Rig Veda, the ...
Persian grammar ( Persian: دستور زبان فارسی, Dastur-e Zabân-e Fârsi lit. Grammar of the Persian language) is the grammar of the Persian language, whose dialectal variants are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Caucasus, Uzbekistan (in Samarqand, Bukhara and the Surxondaryo Region) and Tajikistan. It is similar to that of many other ...