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Languages Spoken in Iran

Official: Persian

Iran has a population of 88.4 million and is a linguistically diverse country, with 18 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. Persian serves as the official language. Of the languages spoken in Iran, 5 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

88.4M
Population
18
Languages
5
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Languages spoken in Iran

Persian (Farsi) Official
Arabic script, Persian alphabet
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75%
CLDR
Azerbaijani
Arabic alphabet, Azerbaijani Braille
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24%
CLDR
Mazanderani
5%
CLDR
Gilaki
5%
CLDR
Southern Kurdish
Arabic alphabet, Arabic script
5%
CLDR
Turkmen
Cyrillic script, Latin script
3%
CLDR
Northern Luri
2%
CLDR
Arabic
Arabic Braille, Arabic alphabet
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2%
CLDR
Baluchi
Balochi Cyrillic Alphabet, Balochi Roman Orthography
2%
CLDR
Domari
Arabic alphabet
2%
CLDR
Bakhtiari
1%
CLDR
Southern Luri
1%
CLDR
Laki
0.8%
CLDR
Karakalpak
Cyrillic script, Latin script
0.7%
CLDR
Central Kurdish
Arabic alphabet, Arabic script
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0.6%
CLDR
Kurdish
Arabic alphabet, Cyrillic script
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0.6%
CLDR
Western Balochi
Balochi Roman Orthography, Balochi Standard Orthography
0.6%
CLDR
Unknown
0.5%
CLDR
CIA World Factbook

"Persian Farsi (official), Azeri and other Turkic dialects, Kurdish, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, Arabic"

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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