| I'm not disagreeing, exactly - I'm sure there are more than 31 million Farsi speakers. But it's also true that there are a number of linguistic minorities in Iran: I think Turkish speakers make up about 25% of the country (Mainly from the north, I think) and there are also smaller numbers of Kurdish, Armenian and Arabic speakers. I would think that most of these people learn Farsi in school - the one Turkish/Iranian family I know certainly did - but I'm honestly not that sure. So my point is, you can't necessarily assume that the population of Iran is the same as the population of Farsi speakers. |