فارسی

Persian is a natural language, modern language, and macrolanguage indigenous to Greater Iran. It is a subclass of New Persian and follows Middle Persian. The language is spoken in Iran, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. It has a native label of فارسی and short names including персидский, перська, farsca, and форсӣ. The language regulatory bodies are the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, the Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, and the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature.

The language utilizes the Persian alphabet, Arabic script, Latin script, and Cyrillic script. It has grammatical moods including optative, indicative, subjunctive, and imperative. Tenses include present tense, past tense, future tense, and present perfect. Persian has a linguistic typology of subject–object–verb. It is studied by Persian studies and has 70,000,000 speakers, writers, or signers. The Wikimedia language code is fa.