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The phonology of the Persian language varies between regional dialects, standard varieties, and even from older variates of Persian.Persian is a pluricentric language and countries that have Persian as an official language have separate standard varieties, namely: Standard Dari (Afghanistan), Standard Iranian Persian (Iran, the variety that mainly discussed in this article) and Standard Tajik ().
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Persian, Dari, and Tajik language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
The Avestan alphabet ( Middle Persian: transliteration: dyn' dpywryh, transcription: dēn dēbīrē, Persian: دین دبیره, romanized : din dabire) is a writing system developed during Iran's Sasanian era (226–651 CE) to render the Avestan language . As a side effect of its development, the script was also used for Pazend, a method of ...
Dec 3, 2020 · The Persian Alphabet: الفبا ‹alefbâ› [ edit | edit source] The six vowels and 23 consonants of Persian are written using a modified version of the Arabic alphabet with four extra Persian letters to represent sounds which do not exist in Arabic. Its Persian name is الفبا ‹alefbâ› , which is the equivalent of the English ...
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 ...
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.
History. As a result of the influence of Islam in the region, Tajik was written in the Persian alphabet up to the 1920s. Until this time, the language was not thought of as separate and simply considered a dialect of the Persian language. [need quotation to verify] The Soviets began by simplifying the Persian alphabet in 1923, before moving to ...
