what country do they speak farsi?
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 The Persian alphabet was introduced into education and public life , although the banning of the Islamic Renaissance Party in 1993 slowed down the adoption . In 1999 , the word Fârsi was removed from the state @-@ language law . [ 6 ] As of 2004 the de facto standard in use is a Cyrillic alphabet , [ 7 ] and as of 1996 only a very small part of the population can read the Persian alphabet . [ 8 ] 

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 To date , there has been little literary production in the language . The most notable works are a poem by Jon Mirande entitled " Kama @-@ goli " in his 1997 anthology Orhoituz and the 1999 novel Agirre zaharraren kartzelaldi berriak by Koldo Izagirre Urreaga with the main character using the language . 

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 Although the question of official languages was settled by 1956 , the military regime of Ayub Khan promoted the interests of West Pakistan at the expense of East Pakistan . Despite forming the majority of the national population , the East Pakistani population continued to be under @-@ represented in the civil and military services , and received a minority of state funding and other government help . This was mainly due to lack of representative government in the fledgling state . Mainly due to regional economic imbalances sectional divisions grew , and support for the Bengali ethnic nationalist Awami League , which invoked the 6 @-@ point movement for greater provincial autonomy . One demand was that East Pakistan be called Bangladesh ( Land / Country of Bengal ) , which subsequently led to the Bangladesh Liberation War . 

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 Widespread ( mashhur ) , which are widely known , but backed up with few original references . 

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 As part of the " russification " of Central Asia , the Cyrillic script was introduced in the late 1930s . The alphabet remained Cyrillic until the end of the 1980s with the disintegration of the Soviet Union . In 1989 , with the growth in Tajik nationalism , a law was enacted declaring Tajik the state language . In addition , the law officially equated Tajik with Persian , placing the word Fârsi ( the local name for Persian ) after Tajik . The law also called for a gradual reintroduction of the Persian ( Arabic ) alphabet . 
