New Persian

New Persian
New Persian
فارسی نو
	Fārsi written in Persian calligraphy (Nastaʿlīq)
Native to	Iran (as Western Persian); Afghanistan (as Dari); Tajikistan (as Tajik); Uzbekistan (as Tajik); Iraq; Turkmenistan (as Tajik); Russia; Azerbaijan;
Native speakers	70 million; (110 million total speakers)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian New Persian; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Persian Middle Persian ;
Writing system	Persian alphabet (Iran and Afghanistan); Tajik alphabet (Tajikistan); Hebrew alphabet; Persian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Iran (as Farsi); Afghanistan (as Dari); Tajikistan (as Tajik); Dagestan (as Tat);
Regulated by	Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Iran); Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan (Afghanistan); Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature (Tajikistan);
Language codes
ISO 639-1	fa
ISO 639-2	per (B) ; fas (T)
ISO 639-3	fas
Glottolog	fars1254
Linguasphere	58-AAC (Wider Persian); > 58-AAC-c (Central Persian)
	Areas with significant numbers of people whose first language is Persian (including dialects)
	Persian Linguasphere.; Legend Official language More than 1,000,000 speakers Between 500,000 – 1,000,000 speakers Between 100,000 – 500,000 speakers Between 25,000 – 100,000 speakers Fewer than 25,000 speakers / none

New Persian (Persian: فارسی نو), also known as Modern Persian (فارسی نوین) is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings. It is conventionally divided into three stages: Early New Persian (8th/9th centuries), Classical Persian (10th–18th centuries), and Contemporary Persian (19th century to present).

Dari is a name given to the New Persian language since the 10th century, widely used in Arabic (see Istakhri, al-Maqdisi and ibn Hawqal) and Persian texts. Since 1964, Dari has been the official name in Afghanistan for the Persian spoken there.

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