Farsi is Indo-European. Morphologically it's fairly simple (e.g. you have different verb forms for person and number, but not for gender) --- except that some p

Farsi is Indo-European. Morphologically it's fairly simple (e.g. you have different verb forms for person and number, but not for gender) --- except that some people like to apply Arabic morphology to Arabic loanwords in certain cases (analogous to how some show-offs use obscure Greek plural paradigms like "metropolei" instead of "metropolises" when speaking English). The writing system's a bit of a pain --- short vowels aren't indicated, and it preserves etymological spelling for Arabic loanwords even though a lot of these sound distinctions have been lost in speech. (Tajik --- the variant of Farsi spoken in Tajikistan, ex-USSR country --- largely eliminated that problem, though, by writing in Cyrillic instead of Arabic script).