# Persian (Q9168)

| Property ID | Property | Value | Value entity | Amount | Unit | Date / from | Until | Rank | Sources |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ---: | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| P1018 | Language regulatory body | Academy of Persian Language and Literature | Q324478 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1018 | Language regulatory body | Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan | Q1140984 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1018 | Language regulatory body | Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature | Q105303665 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P279 | Subclass of | New Persian | Q56356571 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P424 | Wikimedia language code | fa |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | natural language | Q33742 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | modern language | Q1288568 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/fas |
| P31 | Instance of | macrolanguage | Q152559 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | field of study | Q1047113 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | field of study | Q2267705 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | dialect continuum | Q215844 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | language | Q34770 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | language family | Q25295 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P31 | Instance of | dialect group | Q1208380 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P282 | Script | Persian alphabet | Q744068 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P282 | Script | Arabic script | Q1828555 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P282 | Script | Latin script | Q8229 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P282 | Script | Cyrillic script | Q8209 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1705 | Native label | فارسی |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/fa.xml |
| P155 | Follows | Middle Persian | Q32063 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P2579 | Studied by | Persian studies | Q7170261 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P361 | Part of | languages of Iran | Q3242187 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3161 | Has grammatical mood | indicative | Q682111 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3161 | Has grammatical mood | subjunctive | Q473746 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3161 | Has grammatical mood | imperative | Q22716 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3161 | Has grammatical mood | optative | Q527205 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P2341 | Indigenous to | Greater Iran | Q25763 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1999 | UNESCO language status | 1 safe | Q20672086 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3103 | Has tense | present tense | Q192613 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3103 | Has tense | past tense | Q1994301 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3103 | Has tense | future tense | Q501405 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3103 | Has tense | present perfect | Q1240211 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3103 | Has tense | present continuous | Q7240943 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3103 | Has tense | past perfect simple | Q2056212 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P3103 | Has tense | future perfect | Q1234617 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | персидский |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | перська |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | farsca |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | форсӣ |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | персайнаг |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | парсыша |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | персідская |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | порсӣ |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | פרסית |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | persian |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1813 | Short name | farsi |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P17 | Country | Iran | Q794 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/IR |
| P17 | Country | Bahrain | Q398 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/BH |
| P17 | Country | Kuwait | Q817 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P17 | Country | Afghanistan | Q889 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/AF |
| P17 | Country | Pakistan | Q843 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/PK |
| P17 | Country | Tajikistan | Q863 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/TJ |
| P17 | Country | Uzbekistan | Q265 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/UZ |
| P17 | Country | Russia | Q159 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/RU |
| P17 | Country | United Arab Emirates | Q878 |  |  |  |  | normal | https://scriptsource.org/country/AE |
| P17 | Country | Iraq | Q796 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P4132 | Linguistic typology | subject–object–verb | Q539808 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P5996 | Category for films in this language | Category:Persian-language films | Q6840810 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P7084 | Related category | Category:Persian pronunciation | Q84969444 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1098 | Speakers | 45M |  | 45000000 |  | 2007-00-00 |  | preferred | Nationalencyklopedin |
| P1098 | Speakers | 70M |  | 70000000 |  | 2019-00-00 |  | normal | https://asianstudies.unc.edu/persian/ |
| P1098 | Speakers | 52.9M |  | 52939220 |  | 2015-00-00 |  | normal | Ethnologue |
| P14122 | Category for music in this language | Category:Persian-language music | Q138199673 |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P2521 | Female form of label | la langue persane |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P580 | Started | 6th century BCE |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P1251 | ABS ASCL 2011 code | 4106 |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P13750 | Arab Encyclopedia concept ID | 786 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://arab-ency.com.sy/details/786 |
| P8419 | Archive of Our Own tag | فارسی \| Persian |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://wikidata-externalid-url.toolforge.org/?p=8419&url_prefix=https://archiveofourown.org/tags/&id=%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%20%7C%20Persian |
| P9629 | Armeniapedia ID | 1980 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.armeniapedia.org/w139/index.php?curid=1980 |
| P1014 | Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID | 300389087 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300389087 |
| P7033 | Australian Educational Vocabulary ID | scot/7426 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/7426.html |
| P13059 | Babelio subject ID | 84795 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.babelio.com/livres-/-/84795 |
| P2581 | BabelNet ID | 00033707n |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://babelnet.org/synset?id=bn%00033707n&lang=EN |
| P1617 | BBC Things ID | 1a44d6f5-2906-4923-839e-15371e089366 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.bbc.co.uk/things/1a44d6f5-2906-4923-839e-15371e089366 |
| P268 | Bibliothèque nationale de France ID | 119365051 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119365051 |
| P508 | BNCF Thesaurus ID | 9955 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/termine.php?id=9955 |
| P998 | Curlie ID | Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Indo-Iranian/Iranian/Persian |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://curlie.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Indo-Iranian/Iranian/Persian |
| P1036 | Dewey Decimal Classification | 491.55 |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P13311 | Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID | Q120 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://catalog.digital-scriptorium.org/wiki/Item:Q120 |
| P1417 | Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID | topic/Persian-language |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Persian-language |
| P9879 | Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID | COM-46164 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EI3O/COM-46164.xml |
| P14541 | Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) | 4Zeh4O |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.zgbk.com/ecph/words?SiteID=1&ID=4Zeh4O |
| P10565 | Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021) | 27896 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.zgbk.com/ecph/words?SiteID=1&ID=27896 |
| P9498 | Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID | 1b2e |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://eeo.aau.at/eeo.aau.at/index1b2e.html |
| P1627 | Ethnologue.com language code | fas |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.ethnologue.com/language/fas |
| P11012 | EU Knowledge Graph item ID | Q4335 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://linkedopendata.eu/wiki/Item:Q4335 |
| P646 | Freebase ID | /m/032f6 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/032f6 |
| P9100 | GitHub topic | farsi |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://github.com/topics/farsi |
| P1394 | Glottolog code | fars1254 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/fars1254 |
| P227 | GND ID | 4065403-5 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://d-nb.info/gnd/4065403-5 |
| P278 | GOST 7.75–97 code | пер 535 |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P4342 | Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID | persisk |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://wikidata-externalid-url.toolforge.org/?p=4342&url_prefix=https://snl.no/&id=persisk |
| P2924 | Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) | 2332826 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://web.archive.org/web/0/old.bigenc.ru/text/2332826 |
| P13772 | Harper's tag | farsi |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://harpers.org/tag/farsi/ |
| P5250 | IAB code | 1073 |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P305 | IETF language tag | fa |  |  |  |  |  | normal |  |
| P13636 | IMDb interest ID | in0000229 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.imdb.com/interest/in0000229/ |
| P218 | ISO 639-1 code | fa |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/fa |
| P219 | ISO 639-2 code | fas |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/fas |
| P220 | ISO 639-3 code | fas |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/fas |
| P8189 | J9U entity ID | 987007536485405171 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.nli.org.il/en/authorities/987007536485405171 |
| P8408 | KBpedia ID | PersianLanguage |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://kbpedia.org/knowledge-graph/reference-concept/?uri=PersianLanguage |
| P6385 | Krugosvet article (archived) | gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/PERSIDSKI_YAZIK.html |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://web.archive.org/web/2025/https://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/PERSIDSKI_YAZIK.html |
| P4801 | LC and MARC vocabularies ID | languages/per |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages/per.html |
| P244 | Library of Congress Authorities ID | sh85100070 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85100070 |
| P10369 | Lingua Libre ID | Q48 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://lingualibre.org/wiki/Q48 |
| P8636 | McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID | P/persian-language-and-literature-(ancient) |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/P/persian-language-and-literature-(ancient).html |
| P6366 | Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued) | 2776527531 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://web.archive.org/web/https://academic.microsoft.com/v2/detail/2776527531 |
| P12596 | Museum-digital tag ID | 29762 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/29762 |
| P1368 | National Library of Latvia ID | 000129680 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://kopkatalogs.lv/F/?func=direct&local_base=lnc10&doc_number=000129680 |
| P1748 | NCI Thesaurus ID | C153916 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov/evsexplore/concept/ncit/C153916 |
| P349 | NDL Authority ID | 00569099 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00569099 |
| P6900 | NicoNicoPedia word article ID | ペルシア語 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E8%AA%9E |
| P691 | NL CR AUT ID | ph124056 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=find-c&local_base=aut&ccl_term=ica=ph124056 |
| P1245 | OmegaWiki Defined Meaning | 6239 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | http://www.omegawiki.org/DefinedMeaning:(6239) |
| P7305 | Online PWN Encyclopedia ID | 3956075 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/;3956075.html |
| P3847 | Open Library subject ID | persian_language |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://openlibrary.org/subjects/persian_language |
| P10283 | OpenAlex ID | C2776527531 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://openalex.org/C2776527531 |
| P4212 | PACTOLS thesaurus ID | pcrtsSQaoB1JSH |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://ark.frantiq.fr/ark:26678/pcrtsSQaoB1JSH/ |
| P11408 | Pixiv Encyclopedia ID | ペルシア語 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://wikidata-externalid-url.toolforge.org/index.php?p=11408&url_prefix=https://dic.pixiv.net/a/&id=%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E8%AA%9E |
| P9060 | POSIX locale identifier | fa |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.localeplanet.com/icu/fa/ |
| P3417 | Quora topic ID | Persian-language-‎ |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.quora.com/topic/Persian-language-%E2%80%8E |
| P8519 | RKD thesaurus ID | 2002 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://rkd.triply.cc/rkd/RKD-Knowledge-Graph/browser?resource=https://data.rkd.nl/thesaurus/2002 |
| P10376 | ScienceDirect topic ID | social-sciences/persian-language |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/persian-language |
| P9322 | SVKKL authority ID | h0003666-perstina |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://ipac.svkkl.cz/arl-kl/cs/detail-kl_us_auth-h0003666-perstina |
| P3365 | Treccani ID | neopersiano |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/neopersiano |
| P10913 | UK Archival Thesaurus ID | f3/mt335/1703/872/6907 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://ukat.aim25.com/thesaurus/f3/mt335/1703/872/6907 |
| P2892 | UMLS CUI | C0031188 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://evsexplore.semantics.cancer.gov/evsexplore/concept/ncim/C0031188 |
| P3916 | UNESCO Thesaurus ID | concept12927 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept12927 |
| P12800 | Vikidia article ID | ca:Persa |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://central.vikidia.org/wiki/ca%3APersa |
| P12086 | WikiKids ID | Perzisch |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://wikikids.nl/Perzisch |
| P8814 | WordNet 3.1 Synset ID | 06986787-n |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://en-word.net/view/synset/06986787-n |
| P13591 | Yale LUX ID | concept/246a2443-c490-4bd1-b8d5-9cce1a451808 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://lux.collections.yale.edu/view/concept/246a2443-c490-4bd1-b8d5-9cce1a451808 |
| P2347 | YSO ID | 15895 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p15895 |
| P3553 | Zhihu topic ID | 19638301 |  |  |  |  |  | normal | https://www.zhihu.com/topic/19638301 |

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