Station
identification: "Inja Tehran ast" (pronounced in-jaw)
meaning "This is Tehran" The language of Iran (also known as Persian).
Farsi has been isolated for 1000 years from other languages of the Indo-European family.
Farsi (and Armenian ) usually have stressed endings and are full of rather long a and o vowel sounds. Farsi is also has Arabic borrowings.
Station
identification: "Inja Tehran ast" (pronounced in-jaw)
meaning "This is Tehran"
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Persian (Farsi) | Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Tadzhikistan | Indo-European (Indo-Iranian) | 20-30m |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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