Locale Fa Ir

Reference data for the Persian (Iran) locale — endonym فارسی (ایران), written in the Arabic script, right-to-left (RTL).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: fa-IR
• ISO 639-1: fa
• ISO 639-3: fas
• Script: Arab (Arabic)
• Region: IR (Iran)
• Text direction: rtl — right-to-left (RTL)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 71,000,000
• L2 (additional): 20,000,000
• L1+L2 (total): 91,000,000

Set dir="rtl" for this locale (per Locale's text-direction guidance) rather than assuming left-to-right layout.

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Fa 001 (Persian), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

• one — i = 0 or n = 1 (e.g. 0, 1)
• other — everything else (e.g. 2~17, 100, 1000, 10000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Fa 001 with the conventions of Iran.

• Calendar and formats: Solar Hijri dates in daily life and government; Persian digits; rial or toman as the project specifies; decimal separator ٫ (Arabic decimal) or . and thousands separator ٬ or , per CLDR fa.
• Terminology: Iranian official content follows the Academy's terms and government usage.
• Tone: polite, indirect, and elaborate; honorific phrases are natural in correspondence.
• Content context: content in Iran is subject to local legal and content rules; check them for sensitive text and imagery.

Common pitfalls

• Using Dari or Tajik vocabulary for an Iranian audience.
• Using Gregorian dates only on official forms.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Fa 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Unicode CLDR locale data for number, calendar, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)