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Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire ). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as ariya (Iranian). [1] [2] Old Persian is close to both Avestan and the language of the Rig Veda, the ...
Persian, also called Farsi, is a Western Iranian language. It is the official language of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is also spoken by many people in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other neighbouring countries and by immigrants from Central Asia in Russia. Persian was also taught as a second language in schools in Pakistan until ...
Persian (wine) Persian, Indonesia, on the island of Java. Persian cat, a long-haired breed of cat characterized by its round face and shortened muzzle. The Persian, a character from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. The Persians, an ancient Greek tragedy play written by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus in the 5th century BC.
Iranian Persian ( Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized : Fârsi-ye Irâni ), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian ( Persian: فارسی, romanized : Fârsi ), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by minorities in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian ...
The Persian alphabet ( Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized : Alefbâye Fârsi ), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with five additional letters: پ چ ژ گ, in addition the obsolete ڤ. [1]
History of Iran. The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was commonly known in the Western world) is intertwined with that of Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning the area between Anatolia in the west and the Indus River and Syr Darya in the east, and between the Caucasus and Eurasian Steppe in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf ...
In Afghanistan, Dari refers to a modern dialect form of Persian that is the standard language used in administration, government, radio, television, and print media. Because of a preponderance of Dari native speakers, who normally refer to the language as Farsi ( فارسی, "Persian"), it is also known as "Afghan Persian" in some Western sources.
