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Persian

فارسی
fa

Persian (فارسی) is a Indo-European language . It is written using the Arabic script. Its BCP 47 language code is fa.

Persian (فارسی, Fārsī) is an Iranian language and the official language of Iran, Afghanistan (as Dari), and Tajikistan (as Tajik). It is one of the world's oldest continuously spoken languages, with a literary tradition spanning over 1,000 years.

Persian is written right-to-left in the Persian alphabet, an adaptation of the Arabic script. Persian literature is celebrated for its poetry, including the works of Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayyam, and Ferdowsi. Persian served as the lingua franca of much of the Islamic world and Mughal India, contributing extensively to Urdu, Hindi, and many other languages.

Writing Systems Used for Persian

Arabic
العربية
Primary
مرحبا بالعالم
RTL Arab

Frequently Asked Questions

What alphabet or script does Persian use?
Persian is written using the Arabic script (ISO 15924 code: Arab). Arabic is a right-to-left script.
What direction is Persian written?
Persian is written Right-to-left. Text begins on the right side of the page and reads toward the left.
What language family does Persian belong to?
Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is written with the Arabic script.
What is the language code for Persian?
The BCP 47 language code for Persian is "fa". This code is used in software, web standards (the HTML lang attribute), and internationalization contexts.

Language Facts

BCP 47 Code
fa
ISO 639-3
fas
Status
living
Scope
macrolanguage
Language Family
Indo-European
Scripts
1
Primary Script
Arabic

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Data sourced from Unicode CLDR and ISO 639-3. Last updated April 20, 2026.