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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. Persian language - Wikipedia

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    Farsi, which is the Persian word for the Persian language, ... the number of Persian and Arabic loanwords contained in those works increased at times up to 88%. [87]

  4. Persian vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Persian is very powerful in word building and versatile in ways a word can be built from combining affixes, stems, nouns and adjectives. Having many affixes to form new words (over a hundred), and the ability to build affixes and specially prefixes from nouns, [note 1] The Persian language is also claimed to be [1][2][3][4][5][6] and ...

  5. Eastern Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Eastern Arabic numerals, also called Indo-Arabic numerals, are the symbols used to represent numerical digits in conjunction with the Arabic alphabet in the countries of the Mashriq (the east of the Arab world), the Arabian Peninsula, and its variant in other countries that use the Persian numerals on the Iranian plateau and in Asia.

  6. Persian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Persian grammar. Persian grammar (Persian: دستور زبان فارسی, Dastur-e Zabân-e Fârsi lit. Grammar of the Persian language) is the grammar of the Persian language, whose dialectal variants are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Caucasus, Uzbekistan (in Samarqand, Bukhara and the Surxondaryo Region) and Tajikistan. It is similar to that ...

  7. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Balaghat. Etymology: probably from Hindi बालाघाट, from Persian بالا bālā 'above' + Hindi gaht 'pass.' tableland above mountain passes. [11] Baldachin. "Baldachin" (called Baldac in older times) was originally a luxurious type of cloth from Baghdad, from which name the word is derived, through Italian "Baldacco".

  8. Persian phonology - Wikipedia

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    In Dari and Tajik /a/ is the most common vowel and at the end of a word may be pronounced as /æ/. [a] Unlike Iranian Persian, Dari has 5 long vowels /ɑː/, /eː/, /iː/, /oː/, and /uː/. The Dari vowel /ɑː/ and the Iranian vowel /ɒː/ are, respectively, the unrounded and rounded versions of the same vowel. ('roundedness' refers to the ...

  9. Languages of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Iran's ethnic diversity means that the languages of Iran come from a number of linguistic origins, although the primary language spoken and used is Persian.The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran asserts that the Persian language alone must be used for schooling and for all official government communications.