Persian language Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی farhangistaane zabaan-o-adaabe faarsi in Persian) is a governmental body presiding over the use of the Persian language in Iran. The Academy's main activity has been creating and approving official Persian equivalents for the foreign general or technical terms. It has also created an official orthography of the Persian language, titled Dastoor-e Khatt-e Faarsi (Persian Script Orthography). ...more on Wikipedia about "Academy of Persian Language and Literature"
Dari is the local written name for the Persian language in Afghanistan used mainly in official papers. While the Afghans in their daily usage and spoken language call this language Persian (locally: Fârsi) they are commanded by the government to use the name "Dari' for it, while writing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dari (Afghanistan)"
Fingilish ( Farsi + English) (also Pinglish, Finglish, Pingilish or Fingilish) is a term used to describe the way Persian words are written in Latin alphabet. This type of writing is commonly used in online chat, emails and SMS. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fingilish"
Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language, the primary difference with Standard Persian (spoken in Iran and Afghanistan) being that there is a larger borrowing of Turkic and Mongolian vocabulary. It is spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and in parts of Pakistan, mainly Quetta as well as by a large refugee population found mainly in northeastern Iran. Hazaragi is spoken by more then 11 million people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hazaragi language"
The history of Urdu (اردو) is a fascinating story involving history, linguistics, ethnicity, religion, and national identity. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Urdu"
; Ahriman: from Persian Ahriman. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of English words of Persian origin"
Middle Persian or Pahlavi is the Iranian language spoken during Sassanian times. It descended from Old Persian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Middle Persian"
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Old Persian is the oldest attested Persid language. It is classified in the group of Western Iranian languages, subgroup of Indo-Iranian and Indo-European languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Old Persian language"
(Persian alphabet) Letters lacking an initial or medial version are never tied to the following letter, even within a word. As to hamza, it has only a single graphic, since it is never tied to a preceding or following letter. However, it is sometimes 'seated' on a waw, ya or alif, and in that case the seat behaves like an ordinary waw, ya or alif. ...more on Wikipedia about "Persian alphabet"
Persian grammar is similar to many other Indo-European languages, especially those in the Indo-Iranian family. Since Middle Persian it has had a relatively simple grammar, having no grammatical gender and few case markings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Persian grammar"
Persian (فارسی = Fârsi ... پارسی = Pârsi), (local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan: ‘Fârsi’), ‘Pârsi’ (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, and elsewhere. Prior to British colonization, Persian was also widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in the subcontinent throughout the Middle Ages and became the official court language under the Mughal emperors. Evidence of its former rank in the region can still be seen by the extent of its influence on Hindi and Urdu, as well as the popularity that Persian literature still enjoys in the region. Persian and its dialects have official-language status in the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. There are 61–71 million native speakers ** . It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is of the Subject Object Verb type. ...more on Wikipedia about "Persian language"
Persian literature is literature written in Persian. Some consider Persian literature to include works written by ethnic Persians in other languages, such as Arabic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Persian literature"
(Persian phonology) Early NP i ī ē u ū ō a ā ...more on Wikipedia about "Persian phonology"
UniPers (Pârsiye Jahâni) is a simple Latin-based alphabet uniquely designed to facilitate the reading and writing of the Persian language. The UniPers script combines the basic Latin alphabet plus a few modified letters, and a handful of common sense rules and recommendations, in order to best represent the sounds of Persian. ...more on Wikipedia about "UniPers"
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