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| Your first name | Maseeh |
| Your last name | Gankali |
| E-mail: | maseeh at hawaii dot edu |
| Preferred name(s) of your language | Farsi, Persian |
| Alternative names | |
| Language classification | Indo-European |
| Geographical areas where spoken natively | Iran, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers | |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers | 80-134 Million |
| Other languages spoken in area/country | Azari, Kurdish, Arabic, |
| Official language(s) in your country | Farsi |
| Language(s) used at school as a child | Farsi |
| Language(s) used by teachers today | Farsi |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language | Yes |
| If the answer to the above question is yes, please specify | Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Pakistani |
| Does your language have a widely accepted writing system? | Yes |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? | Everything |
Salam Haj agha, shoma khob hast-id? |
hello pilgrimage Sir 2PL good be-2PL |
Hello sir, how are you? |
Salam khahar, be-farma-yid. |
hello sister 2-come-PL (honorific) |
Hell sister, please come |
Haj agha, yek kilo shekar chand-e? |
pilgrimage Sir one kilo sugar how_much-be |
Mister, how much is a kilo of sugar? |
Ghabel-i na-dar-e. |
value-E not-having-be |
It's nothing for you. |
Khahesh mi-kon-am, chand-e? |
plead I-doing-be how_much-be |
I insist, how much? |
Hododan hezar Toman. Baraye shoma noh-sad-o-panjah. |
about thousand toman. for you-2PL nine-hundred-and-fifty. |
About a thousand toman. For you, nine hundred and fifty. |
be-farma-yid. |
2-come-PL (honorific) |
Here you are. |
Ghabel-i na-dar-e. |
value-E not-having-be |
It's nothing for you. |
Khahesh mi-kon-am. |
plead I-doing-be |
I insist. |
Kheili mamnon. |
a_lot thankful |
Thanks a lot. |
khoda-hafez. |
god-protector |
Good bye. |
| WORD LIST | |
| NUMBERS | |
| one | Yek |
| two | Do |
| three | Se |
| four | Chahar |
| five | Panj |
| six | Shesh |
| seven | Haft |
| eight | Hasht |
| nine | Noh |
| ten | Dah |
| BODY PARTS | |
head(s) |
Sar (ha) |
| hair(s) |
mo (ha) |
| eye(s) | -- cheshm (ha) |
| nose(s) | -- damagh (ha), bini (ha) |
| mouth(s) | -- dahan (ha) |
| ear(s) | -- gosh (ha) |
| Face(s) |
sorat (ha), rokh (ha) |
| beard(s) |
rish (ha) |
| throat(s) |
halghe (ha) |
| chest(s) |
sine (ha) |
| stomach(s) |
del (ha) |
| arm(s) |
dast (ha) |
| hand(s) |
dast (ha) |
finger(s) |
angosht (ha) |
| leg(s) |
pa (ha) |
| knee(s) |
zano (ha) |
| ankle(s) |
moch e pa (ha) {this means literally joint of the leg} |
| foot/feet |
pa (ha) |
tooth(s) |
dandan (ha) |
| TEXT MESSAGE PHRASES | |
| Hello, How are you? |
Salam, Cetori? |
| I love you |
doset daram |
| Please call back |
Lotfan, zang bezan |
| The baby is yours |
bache male to ast |
| I miss you |
Delam barat tang shode |
| You are beautiful, like a Persian cat. |
To kheili khoshkeli, mesle gorbeye Irani. |
| You are very beautiful, your mom too. |
To kheili khoshkeli, Madaret ham hamintor |
| where are you, I'm waiting. |
Koja hast, man montazeram. |
| who is your second boyfriend? |
dost pesare dovvomit ki hastesh |
| you will not marry that white boy, Tobias, he eats pigs. |
To ba on pesar sefide Tobias arosi nemikoni, on khok mikhore. |