what is persian
Persian (/ËpÉrÊÉn/ or /ËpÉrÊÉn/), also known by its endonym Farsi or Parsi (English: /ËfÉrsiË/ ; Persian: ÙØ§Ø±Ø³Û fÄrsi [fÉËÉ¾ËsiË]. ), is the predominant modern descendant of Old Persian, a southwestern Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages.t is an Iranian language and as such, like its modern-day variant, a branch of the Indo-European language family. The oldest known text written in Old Persian is from the Behistun Inscriptions. Examples of Old Persian have been found in what is now present-day Iran, Turkey, Bahrain, Iraq, and Egypt.