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Languages & Alphabet in IRAN

Iranian language is a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains.

FARSI (Parsi)/Persian is the predominant and official language of Iran. Nevertheless, a number of languages and dialects from three language families— Indo= European, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic—are also spoken. Farsi has no gender identifier (not even for 3rd person singular he/she.

Alphabet used through History:

  • The (Mikhi) Cuneiform alphabet (Parsi) – 41 letters. Achaemenid period (2000 B.C.E.)
  • The Pahalavi alphabet (Sasanian) a mixture of letters and symbols more than 1000
  • The Modern Farsi script is directly derived and developed from Arabic script, replacement of the Pahlavi scripts with the Persian alphabet to write the Persian language was done by the Safavid dynasty and Samanid dynasty in 9th-century.

The modern Farsi has 32 characters and is written right to left – 4 red letters are not in Arabic- they only exist in Farsi/Parsi.
E,H,V,N,M,L,GA,K,GH,F,GH,EA,ZA,TA,ZA,SA,SH,S,DJ,Z,R,Z,D,KH,H,CH,J,C,T,P,B,A