Languages of Iran

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

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

NOTE: This table is under development and not complete.

NOTE: This table covers languages. For dialects, specially Eastern Farsic vs. Wstern Farsic, please see this glottolog page.

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

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.

See also