what was a common language spoken by the persian people called
Only four of the many modern Iranian languages are the official languages of the state in which they are spoken. The chief of these is Persian (known in Persian as FÄrsÄ«), a West Iranian language and the national language of Iran, which is spoken by about 30,000,000 people as a native language. A dialect of Persian known as Dari is recognized, moreover, as a second language in Afghanistan.