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Farsi / Persian Language

Farsi alphabet, Farsi orthography, Farsi language history and sources

Farsi language

Farsi: Official language of Afghanistan and Iran.

Number of Farsi Speakers: Over 60 million worldwide.

Farsi Speakers: In Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Tajikistan, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.

Language Classification: Indo-European language family.

Farsi Alphabet: Arabic script, written from right to left. Most vowels are cancelled in words. Consonants have different shapes when they are in the beginning, middle, or at the end of a sentence.

Farsi Orthography: Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) in linguistic topology.

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Farsi Language History: Old Persian inscriptions from 559 - 331 B.C. Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat was versed in Persian.

Farsi Language Enriched by: Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Hebrew.

Unique Features of Farsi: Farsi is the newly acquired name for the Persian language. Same scholars refuse to use the name of Farsi but use Persian.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Farsi / Persian language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Persian.

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