Farsi

Farsi, also known as Persian, is one of the Western Iranian languages. The Persian language has been written with a number of different scripts, including the Old Persian Cuneiform, Pahlavi, Aramaic, and Avestan, Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, but after the Islamic conquest of the Persian Sassanian Empire, Arabic became the language of government, culture and especially religion. As a result, Persian nowadays, is written in a modified variant of the Arabic script. For centuries, Persian has also been a prestigious cultural language in other regions of Western Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia by the various empires based in the regions. Modern Persian appeared during the 9th century. It was the official religious and literary language of the Sasanian Empire. There are approximately 110 million Persian speakers worldwide. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and considered part of Greater Iran. There are also significant numbers of speakers in many other countries, including Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Oman, Yemen, the UAE and the USA. It is the official language in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. In Afghanistan Persian is known as Dari or Dari-Persian since 1958, while in Tajikistan it is known as Tajiki since the Soviet era. As for Persian grammar, it has a standard subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, but because Persian is a pro-drop language (i.e.) some pronouns can be deleted, the subject of a sentence is often not apparent until the end of the verb, at the end of a sentence.