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As of October 2023, Iran has banned the teaching of foreign languages, including Arabic, in all primary and kindergarten schools. The ban is intended to help preserve Iranian identity in children at a young age. [13] The Arabic taught in schools is Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, which is used in Islamic liturgy.
Khuzestani Arabic is a dialect of South Mesopotamian Arabic (SMA or "Gələt Arabic") spoken by the Iranian Arabs in Khuzestan Province of Iran. While it is a variety of SMA, it has many similarities with Gulf Arabic in neighbouring Kuwait. It has subsequently had a long history of contact with the Persian language, leading to several changes. [2]
There are several TV channels in Arabic language broadcasting from Iran, namely, Al-Alam, Al-Kawthar TV, iFilm, Ahwazna TV, Al Ahwaz TV and Al-Ahvaz TV. Currently, the sole newspaper in Arabic language published in Iran is Kayhan Al Arabi out of 23 Persian dailies and three English dailies newspapers in Iran.
Iranian Arabs (Arabic: عرب إيران ʿArab-e Īrān; Persian: عربهای ايران Arabhā-ye Irān) are the citizens of Iran who are ethnically Arab. [4] In 2008, their population stood at about 1.6 million people. [5] They are primarily concentrated in Khuzestan province. [6] [full citation needed] [7] [8]
Arabic; Azerbaijani (Torki) in Iran. Baluchi in Iran, in Pakistan's Balochistan region, Afghanistan and Oman [16] Garshuni (or Karshuni) originated in the 7th century, when Arabic became the dominant spoken language in the Fertile Crescent, but Arabic script was not yet fully developed or widely read, and so the Syriac alphabet was used. There ...
Khuzestani Arabic, spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. This is a mix of Southern Mesopotamian Arabic and Gulf Arabic. Khorasani Arabic, spoken in the Iranian province of Khorasan. Kuwaiti Arabic is a Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in Kuwait. Sudanese Arabic, spoken by 17 million people in Sudan and some parts of southern Egypt. Sudanese ...
Arab-Persians (Arabic: الفرس العرب; Persian: عرب های پارسی) are people who are of mixed Arab and Persian descent. Historically, inter-ethnic marriages between Arabs and Persians have been common in Iran , Kuwait , Iraq , and Bahrain , as well as in Lebanon and Syria , albeit to a lesser extent.
In the 7th-century, the Sassanids were overthrown by the Arabs. Under Arab influence, Iranian languages began to be written in Arabic script (adapted to Iranian phonology), while Middle Persian began to rapidly evolve into New Persian and the name parsik became Arabicized farsi. Not all Iranians were comfortable with these Arabic-influenced ...