Languages of Iran
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- This article deals with the languages found in Iran. The Iranian languages article deals with the linguistic branch of the Indo-European languages family
There are dozens of languages spoken in Iran. The following are the languages with the greatest number of speakers: (Data from the CIA World Factbook)
- Persian and Persian dialects 58%
- Azeri and other Turkic languages 26%
- Kurdish 9%
- Balochi 1%
- Arabic 1%
- Other language which comprise the remaining 5%, include Armenian, Assyrian and Brahui etc.
[edit] An extensive list of languages in Iran
The following list details the languages spoken in Iran and lists the total number of speakers for each language: (Data from Ethnologue)
- Aimaq 170,000
- Alviri-Vidari (unknown)
- Gulf Arabic 200,000
- Mesopotamian Arabic 1,200,000
- Armenian 170,800
- Ashtiani 21,099
- Assyrian, Neo-Aramaic 10,00 - 20,000
- Azerbaijani south 23,500,000
- Bakhtiari 1,000,000 (350,000 are monolingual)
- Balochi, southern 405,000
- Balochi, western 451,000
- Bashkardi 7,033
- Brahui 10,000
- Dari, Zoroastrian 8,000 to 15,000
- Dezfuli (unknown)
- Domari 1,338,271
- Dzhidi (unknown)
- Eshtehardi (unknown)
- Fars, northwestern (small numbers)
- Fars, southwestern (unknown)
- Persian, western 22,000,000
- Gazi 7,033
- Georgian 50,000
- Gilaki 3,265,000
- Gozarkhani (unknown)
- Harzani 28,132
- Hawrami 22,948
- Hazaragi 283,000
- Jadgali (unknown)
- Kabatei (unknown)
- Kajali (unknown)
- Karingari 17,583
- Kazakh 3,000
- Khalaj 42,107
- Kho'ini (unknown)
- Khorosani Turkish 4000,000
- Khunsari 21,099
- Khoresh e-Rostam (unknown)
- Koroshi (160-200)
- Kurdish, central 3,250,000
- Kurdish, northern 350,000
- Kurdish, southern 3,000,000
- Laki 1,000,000
- Lasgerdi (unknown)
- Luri, northern 1,500,000
- Luri, southern 875,000
- Mandaic 500
- Mazanderani 3,265,000
- Natanzi 7,033
- Nayini 7,033
- Parsi-Dari 350,000
- Pashto, southern 113,000
- Qashqa'i 1,500,000
- Razajerdi (unknown)
- Romani, Balkan (unknown)
- Rudbari (unknown)
- Salchuq (unknown)
- Sangisari (unknown)
- Semnani 21,099
- Senaya 60
- Shahmizardi (unknown)
- Shahrudi (unknown)
- Sivandi 7,033
- Soi 7,033
- Sorkhei (unknown)
- Takestani 220,000
- Talysh 112,000
- Taromi, upper (unknown)
- Tat, muslim 7,000
- Turkmen 2,000,000
- Vafsi 18,000
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