ARE THERE IRAN PEOPLE HERE

ma   Sun May 27, 2007 7:37 am GMT
ANYONE I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE LANGUAGE YOU GUYS SPEAK. IT'S I BELIEVE CALLED FARSI? BUT I'VE HEARD TOO PERSIAN
Guest   Sun May 27, 2007 8:54 am GMT
"Iran people" = Iranians

Farsi is what Anglophones know as "Persian". It is the official and most widely spoken language in Iran. However, there are many other languages of Iran.

Data from Ethnologue:

Aimaq - 170,000 speakers
Alviri-Vidari - unknown number of speakers
Gulf Arabic - 200,000
Mesopotamian Arabic - 1,200,000
Armenian - 170,800
Ashtiani - 21,099
Assyrian, Neo-Aramaic - 10,00 to 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
Farsi / 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 - 400,000
Khunsari - 21,099
Khoresh e-Rostam - unknown
Koroshi - 160 to 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 - 7,000
Turkmen - 2,000,000
Vafsi - 18,000