<sod>'''Persian grammar''' (دستور زبان فارسی) is the set of rules used to construct statements, questions amd commands in the [[Persian language]], spoken mainly in Iran, with dialects in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is similar to that of many other [[Indo-European languages]]. The language became a more [[Isolating language|analytical language]] around the time of [[Middle Persian]], with fewer [[grammatical case|cases]] and discarding [[grammatical gender]]. The innovations remain in [[Persian language#New Persian|Modern Persian]], which is one of the few Indo-European languages to lack grammatical gender.<eod>
<sod>'''Persian grammar''' (دستور زبان فارسی) is the [[grammar]] of the [[Persian language]], whose [[dialectal]] variants are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is similar to that of many other [[Indo-European languages]]. The language became a more [[Isolating language|analytical language]] around the time of [[Middle Persian]], with fewer [[grammatical case|cases]] and discarding [[grammatical gender]]. The innovations remain in [[Persian language#New Persian|Modern Persian]], which is one of the few Indo-European languages to lack grammatical gender.<eod>