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  2. Persian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Writing portal. The Persian alphabet (Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized: Alefbâ-ye 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 (the sounds 'g', 'zh', 'ch', and 'p', respectively), in ...

  3. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Assassin. The original word in Persian: اساسیان Asaasiaan which is in two parts. 'Asaas' [Arabic for Foundation/God] and 'iaan' [Persian adj. 'committed/plural'] is the common name used to refer to Nizari Ismailis under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah who conducted a series of political assassinations.

  4. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing. [1][2] Borrowing is a metaphorical term that is well established in the linguistic field despite its acknowledged descriptive flaws ...

  5. Persian phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonology of the Persian language varies between regional dialects, standard varieties, and even from older varieties 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 and Standard Tajik (). [1]

  6. List of French loanwords in Persian - Wikipedia

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    A great number of words of French origin have entered the Persian language since the early modern period. The following is a partial list of these loanwords: French. Persian (Persian alphabet) Persian (Perso-Latin alphabet) Meaning and usage. abat-jour. آباژور.

  7. Parkari Koli language - Wikipedia

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    The letter hāʾ is also used in Parkari to represent the sound [h] in native Parkari words, in Arabic and Persian loanwords, and to represent vowels (/ə/ or /əʰ/) at the end of the word. The notations and conventions in Parkari and Sindhi are different from either Persian or Arabic and from Urdu.

  8. ISIRI 9147 - Wikipedia

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    ISIRI 9147. ISIRI 9147 is the Iranian national standard for Persian keyboard layout, [1] based on ISIRI 6219 and the Unicode Standard. It was published on 2007-04-08, under the title Information technology – Layout of Persian letters and symbols on computer keyboards, by Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI). [2]

  9. The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An ...

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    190. ISBN. 3447045035. The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary is a 2001 book by Garland Cannon and Alan S. Kaye. It is a historical dictionary of Persian loanwords in English which includes 811 Persian words appeared in English texts since 1225 CE.