Farsi or Persian?
“Farsi” is the native-language name فارسی. “Persian” is the standard English name of the language. This page uses Farsi in the URL because it directly matches how many Persian-speaking users search for the alphabet, while the page also includes “Persian alphabet” so English searches are covered.
How many letters are in the Farsi alphabet?
Modern Farsi uses 32 letters. It is based on the Arabic script but includes Persian-specific letters such as پ, چ, ژ and گ.
Persian-Arabic writing system
Farsi is written from right to left. Letter shapes may change depending on whether a letter appears at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
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