Persian is the official language spoken in Iran. However, certain groups of Iranians might learn other local languages as their first language. East Azerbaijan Province and Maragheh city is among the cities in which Turkish language is used as the first language.

As future students of Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, you might be required to achieve a certain level of proficiency in Persian. This requirement depends on the program to which you are admitted. Certain majors and programs require students to closely work with patients who speak Persian. For these programs, students must have a good command of this language.

Persian is the official language of the country and the one with the highest number of speakers. It is one of the languages in Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages and has a 32-letter alphabet system. It is mainly spoken in Iran, Afghanistan (known as Dari Persian) and Tajikistan (known as Tajiki Persian). The three variations have many similarities, and Persian speakers from these three countries can, to a considerable extent, understand each other with relative ease. In terms of orthography, Persian language uses Arabic alphabet, with the addition of four letters. Also, its alphabet is written cursively, i.e. in almost all words, some or all of the letters are connected to each other. Contemporary Persian has been greatly influenced by French, English and Russian, borrowing and naturalizing many lexical items in the fields of technology, sciences, and humanities.