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Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Persian (local names: فارسی IPA: [fɒːrˈsi] (Farsi) or پارسی (Parsi); see Nomenclature), is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Persian and its varieties have official-language status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. According...
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Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. Three phases may be distinguished in the development of Iranian languages: Old, Middle, and Modern. Old Iranian is represented by Avestan and Old Persian.
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In recent years, there has been a growing tendency to refer to Persian as Farsi. Professor Ehsan Yarshater, editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, has written about the damage wrought by changing "Persia" to "Iran" and has pointed out that the use of Farsi in foreign languages is as detrimental.(1) Here, I would like to...
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August 18, 1998 The Iranian I suppose I am lucky not to remember. It means I did not struggle, not much anyway, and not for long. Iranian friends who came to America just a few years after me, at eight or twelve or sixteen years of age, have had a much harder time of it.
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Persian Iranian (Farsi) Language at Best Iran Travel.com, Travel and cultural information about ancient and modern Iran (Persia).
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Iranian (Aryan) languages are spoken in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Arran (republic of Azerbaijan), Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, China, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Russia and other scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains. Major modern Iranian languages are New Persian, Kordi (Kurdish) and Pashto (Persian-Pashto),
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The Indo-Iranian language group constitutes the easternmost extant branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It consists of three language groups: the Indo-Aryan (including Dardic), Iranian and Nuristani. The term Aryan languages...
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