| Persian language
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Persian language is one of the world's oldest languages
still in use today, and is known to have one of
the most powerful literary traditions, with formidable
Persian poets like Ferdowsi, Hafez, Khayyam, Attar,
Saadi, Nezami, Roudaki, and, of course, the legendary
Rumi. By native speakers as well as in Urdu, Arabic
and other neighboring languages, it is called Farsi,
and additionally Dari or Tajiki in the eastern parts
of Greater Iran. It is part of the Iranian sub-section
of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European
family of languages. Persian-speakers are today
in the majority in Iran, where they speak the western
dialect, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan,and form a
large minority in Uzbekistan as well, where they
speak the eastern dialect (Dari or Tajiki). Smaller
groups of Persian-speakers are found in Pakistan,
western China (Xinjiang), as well as in the UAE,
Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman and Azerbaijan.
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