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Farsi, also known as Persian, Dari or Tajiki, is the national language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. It is also spoken in other parts of the Middle East and India. There are around 60 to 80 million native speakers around the world.
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Farsi has twenty-three consonants and six vowel sounds. It is written from right to left. (Numerals are written from left to right.)
In Farsi, nouns have no gender, and there are no articles. Farsi is considered to have a relatively simple grammatical structure.
The first handwritten book in Farsi was a medical book written in 1055.
According to the most recent US Census data, there are about 400,000 people who speak Farsi in the US. There are large Farsi speaking populations in California, New York, and Washington, DC.
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