Country Info

Iran Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 69,718,360 people (85% of Iran) that can read or write at least one language.

21 Writing Systems used in Iran

Persian (Arabic)

fa-arab
language code
61,516,200
people

Azerbaijani (Arabic)

az-arab
language code
19,685,184
people

Mazanderani (Arabic)

mzn-arab
language code
4,101,080
people

Gilaki (Arabic)

glk-arab
language code
3,772,993
people

Central Kurdish (Arabic)

ckb-arab
language code
3,198,842
people

Southern Kurdish (Arabic)

sdh-arab
language code
3,034,799
people

Turkmen (Latin)

tk-latn
language code
2,296,604
people

Northern Luri (Arabic)

lrc-arab
language code
1,722,453
people

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
1,640,432
people

Baluchi (Arabic)

bal-arab
language code
1,640,432
people

Domari (Arabic)

rmt-arab
language code
1,558,410
people

Bakhtiari (Arabic)

bqi-arab
language code
1,148,302
people

Southern Luri (Arabic)

luz-arab
language code
984,259
people

Laki (Arabic)

lki-arab
language code
623,364
people

Western Balochi (Arabic)

bgn-arab
language code
459,320
people

Parsi-Dari (Arabic)

prd-arab
language code
410,108
people

Armenian (Armenian)

hy-armn
language code
196,851
people

Pashto (Arabic)

ps-arab
language code
131,234
people

Georgian (Georgian)

ka-geor
language code
58,235
people

Zoroastrian Dari (Arabic)

gbz-arab
language code
8,038
people

Kazakh (Arabic)

kk-arab
language code
3,034
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR