Language policy and planning of Iran. The current language policy of Iran is addressed in Chapter Two of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Articles 15 & 16). It asserts that the Persian language is the lingua franca of the Iranian nation and as such, required for the school system and for all official government communications. In addition, the constitution …

Although Persian (Farsi) is the predominant and official language of Iran, a number of languages and dialects from three language families—Indo-European, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic—are spoken. Roughly three-fourths of Iranians speak one of the Indo-European languages .

The Iranian languages are divided into the following branches: The Western Iranian languages, subdivided into: Southwestern, of which Persian (including the Dari and Tajik dialects) and Luri are the dominant members; Northwestern, of which the Kurdish languages are the dominant members. The Eastern Iranian languages, subdivided into:

03/05/2014 · Almost all countries that were conquered by the Arabs after the 7th century, from Morocco to Iraq, were Arabized and today almost all the people in these countries speak Arabic. The major exception to this is Iran, which retained its native tongue and was never Arabized.

29/06/2014 · Dari was the spoken language of Sassanian and post-Sassanian Iran, while the so-called Pahlavi (Middle Persian) was the official administrative language of the Sassanian Empire. It was in fact because of the Arabs adopting Dari and later conquering Afghanistan, that Dari spread to this region and displaced other Iranian languages.

17/09/2020 · The Kurdish is a western Iranian language, it is one of the mix language of India and Iran. This language is mostly spoken by the peoples …

Iran is a multiethnic, multicultural society as a result of millennia of migration and conquest. It is perhaps easiest to speak of the various ethnic groups in the country in terms of their first language. Approximately half of the population speaks Persian and affiliated dialects as their primary language.

12/01/2015 · The dominant religion of Iran is Islam (majority Shi'ite), while the Baha'i Faith is the largest non-Muslim minority religion. ... The language of Iran …