Editing Languages of Iran (section)

==Languages by number of speakers==
The following is a list of languages spoken in Iran by number of speakers according to the latest Ethnologue edition in 2025.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/IR/|title=Iran|website=Ethnologue|language=en|access-date=May 19, 2025}}</ref>

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!Rank<ref name=":4" />{{efn|For Iranian Persian it includes both first and second language speakers}}
!Language
!Speakers in Iran
|-
|1
| [[Iranian Persian]]
|78,700,000
|-
|2
| [[Azerbaijani language|Azeri]]
|10,100,000
|-
|3
| [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]]
| 5,110,000
|-
|4
| [[Luri language|Luri]]
|3,860,000
|-
|5
| [[Gilaki language|Gilaki]]
|1,610,000
|-
|6
| [[Balochi language|Balochi]]
|1,450,000
|-
|7
| [[Mazanderani language|Mazandarani]]
|1,350,000
|-
|8
| [[Bakhtiari language|Bakhtiari]]
|1,270,000
|-
|9
|[[Southern Pashto language|Southern Pashto]]
|1,270,000
|-
|10
|[[Dari]]
|1,200,000
|-
|11
|[[Qashqai language|Qashqai]]
|1,020,000
|-
|12
|[[Khorasani Turkish]]
|960,000
|-
|13
|[[Laki language|Laki]]
|680,000
|-
|14
|[[Mesopotamian Arabic]]
|571,000
|-
|15
|[[Turkmen language|Turkmen]]
|359,000
|-
|16
|[[Armenian language|Armenian]]
|340,000
|-
|17
|[[Hazaragi]]
|337,000
|-
|18
|[[Hawrami language|Hawrami]]
|180,000
|-
|19
|[[Suret language|Assyrian Neo-Aramaic]]
|117,000
|-
|20
|[[Southwestern Fars language|Southwestern Fars]]
|113,000
|-
|21
|[[Gulf Arabic]]
|110,000
|-
|22
|Other languages
| 2,048,000
|}