Editing Languages of Iran (section)

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{{About||the linguistic branch of the Indo-European languages family|Iranian languages}}
{{Update|date=August 2017}}
{{Languages of
| country = Iran
|image=Tarbiyat library.jpg
|caption=Persian sign at the [[Tarbiyat]] library in [[Tabriz]]
| official = [[Persian language|Persian]]
|main       =  Persian 53%, [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] and other [[Turkic languages|Turkic dialects]] 18% (e.g [[Afshar dialect]], [[Chaharmahali Turkic]], [[Khalaj language|Khalaj]], [[Khorasani Turkic]], [[Qashqai language|Qashqai]], [[Sonqori dialect]], [[Turkmen language|Turkmen]]), [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]] 10%,  [[Gilaki language|Gilaki]] and [[Mazandarani language|Mazandarani]] 7%, [[Lurish language|Luri]] 6%, [[Arabic language|Arabic]] 2%, [[Balochi language|Balochi]] 2%, and other languages ([[Tati language (Iran)|Tati]], [[Talysh language|Talysh]], [[Armenian language|Armenian]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[Assyrian Neo-Aramaic|Assyrian]], [[Circassian language|Circassian]], [[Achomi]] 1%<ref name="CIA World Factbook"/>
|minority    = [[Armenian language|Armenian]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[Circassian language|Circassian]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and [[Assyrian Neo-Aramaic|Assyrian]]
|foreign    = [[English language|English]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[French language|French]]
|sign       = [[Persian Sign Language]]

|keyboard   = [[ISIRI 9147]]
|keyboard image = [[File:Persian keyboard layout, unshifted.gif|200px]]
}}

{{Culture of Iran}}

Iran's ethnic diversity means that the '''languages of Iran''' come from a number of linguistic origins, although the primary language spoken and used is [[Persian language|Persian]]. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran asserts that the Persian language alone must be used for schooling and for all official government communications. The constitution also recognizes Arabic as the language of Islam, and assigns it formal status as the language of religion. Although multilingualism is not encouraged, the use of minority languages is permitted in the course of teaching minority-language literature. Different publications have reported different statistics for the languages of Iran; however, the top three languages spoken are consistently reported as Persian, [[Azerbaijani language|Azeri]] and [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]].