Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision. The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided

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The term Persian is an English derivation of Latin Persiānus, the adjectival form of Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís (Περσίς), a Hellenized form of Old Persian Pārsa (𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), which means "Persia" (a region in southwestern Iran, corresponding to modern-day

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In general, the Iranian languages are known from three periods: namely Old, Middle, and New (Modern). These correspond to three

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There are three standard varieties of modern Persian:
• Iranian Persian (Persian, Western Persian, or Farsi) is spoken in

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Morphology
Suffixes predominate Persian morphology, though there are a small number of prefixes. Verbs can express tense and aspect,

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Native word formation
Persian makes extensive use of word building and combining affixes, stems, nouns and adjectives.

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Iranian Persian has six vowels and twenty-three consonants; both Dari and Tajiki have eight vowels.
Vowels
Historically, Persian distinguished length. Early New Persian had a series of five long vowels (/iː/,

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