lol I'm not a language nerd and I knew that. Persian is Indo-European as the guy before me said. Same as Sanskrit and possibly, but not sure Hindi and I don't think you'd understand an ounce of Persian if you read it.
The best comparison I could make is English and Persian having the same great-great great grandpa. Yes, they share a certain percentage of their DNA, but they're almost indistinghushable as cousins.

People, finally!
I've found something interresting! So, Sámi languages are sometimes sort to Finno-ugric language family, but not to Finnic group in this family, Sámi are sorted to Finno-permic subgroup.
If You don't know, Finno-ugric branch is in Uralic language family. It is branch, where are Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian. So, Marc has right. Althought this fact, that Persian language belongs to Germanic branch isn't true, althought It belongs to the Indo-european language family, like Germanic languages, Slavic languages ETC.
But, It is for other topic.

Well that's what I ment then. I'm not such a nerd to call it by it's very correct name but well it does have few similarities. Talking about persian.