Languages of Iran

Geographic distribution of Pashto (orange) and other Iranian languages

There are dozens of languages spoken in Iran. The following are the languages with the greatest number of speakers (Data from the CIA World Factbook):

• Persian, Luri, Gilaki and Mazandarani 58%
• Azeri and other Turkic languages 26%
• Kurdish 9%
• Balochi 1%
• Arabic 1%
• The remaining 5% include a variety of other languages.

Related pages

• Indo-Iranian languages

Other websites

• Ethnologue report for languages of Iran
• Britannica
• CIA FactBook