What is Persian language?
{{Infobox language | name = Persian | altname = Farsi | nativename = {{lang|fa|فَاَرْسِیْ}} | pronunciation = {{IPA-fa|fɒːɾˈsiː|}} | image = Farsi.svg | imagesize = 100px | imagecaption = ''Farsi'' in Persian script ([[Nastaʿlīq]] style) | states = [[Iran]]<ref name=Samadi>{{cite book |last=Samadi |first=Habibeh |title= Assessing Grammar: The Languages of Lars |year=2012 |publisher= Multilingual Matters |isbn=978-1-84769-637-3 |author2=Nick Perkins |editor= Martin Ball, David Crystal, Paul Fletcher |page=169}}</ref><br> [[Afghanistan]]<ref name=Samadi /><small>(as [[Dari (Eastern Persian)|Dari]])</small><br> [[Tajikistan]]<ref name=Samadi /><small>(as [[Tajik language|Tajik]])</small><br> [[Uzbekistan]]<br> [[Iraq]]<br> [[Pakistan]]<ref name=Samadi /><br> [[Bahrain]]<br> [[Azerbaijan]]<ref name=Windfuhr/> | region = | speakers = 60 million | date = 2009 | ref = <ref name=Windfuhr>Windfuhr, Gernot. ''The Iranian Languages''. Routledge. 2009. p. 418.</ref> | speakers2 = (110 million total speakers)<ref name=Windfuhr/> | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] | fam3 = [[Iranian languages|Iranian]] | fam4 = Western Iranian | fam5 = Southwestern Iranian | ancestor = [[Old Persian]] | ancestor2 = [[Middle Persian]] | dia1 = Western Persian | dia2 = Eastern Persian | dia3 = [[Tajik language|Central Asian Persian]] | dia4 = Bukharic | dia5 = Pahlavani | dia6 = [[Hazaragi dialect|Hazaragi]] | dia7 = [[Aimaq dialect|Aimaq]] | dia8 = Judæo-Persian | dia9 = Dehwari | dia10 = Juhuri<ref name=Windfuhr/> | dia11 = [[Tat language (Caucasus)|Caucasian Tat]]<ref name=Windfuhr/> | dia12 = Armeno-Tat<ref name=Windfuhr/> | script = [[Persian alphabet]]<br>[[Cyrillic]]<br