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Persian (local names: فارسی or پارسی ; see Nomenclature) is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Persian and its varieties have official-language status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. According to CIA World Factbook, based on old data, there are approximately 72 million native speakers of Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and about the same number of people in other parts of the world speak Persian. UNESCO was asked to select... full article at wikipedia

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