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Languages of Iran

This page provides information about languages of Iran and area, mostly focus on living languages, to be useful for computing environments.

Language Tags

In computing, Language Tags are a mechanism to indicate the language of text or other items. Language tags are used widely on the Internet.

For details of language tags, see the Language tags in HTML and XML document by W3C Internationalization Activity.

Tags for languages of Iran and area

The following table lists language tags for languages of Iran and area.

This table covers formal registry of the languages. For dialects, specially Eastern Farsic vs. Wstern Farsic, please see this glottolog page.

NOTE: This table is under development and not complete.

Language (English) Region Tag *Language Name in *fa-IR CLDR
Persian
Persian / Iranian Persian / Farsi Iran fa / fa-IR فارسی fa
Persian / Afghan Persian / Dari Afghanistan fa-AF دری fa_AF
Tajik (or Tajiki) Tajikistan tg / tg-TJ تاجیکی
Azeri
Azerbaijani / Azeri / Azeri Turkish Iran az-IR ترکی آذربایجانی
Azerbaijani / Azeri / Azeri Turkish Azerbaijan az / az-AZ
Kurdish
Central Kurdish Iran ckb-IR کوردیی ناوەندی ckb_IR
Mazandarani
Mazandarani Iran mzn مازندرانی mzn

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