Language Info

Persian written in Arabic script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Persian uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Persian is 80,740,270 people across 8 countries.

Iran

61,516,200 people
75.00% literate in Persian

Afghanistan

17,062,400 people
50.00% literate in Persian

Pakistan

1,352,505 people
0.66% literate in Persian

Iraq

340,971 people

Qatar

254,574 people

United Arab Emirates

115,377 people

Tajikistan

66,054 people

Oman

32,189 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters