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Farvardin (Persian: فروردین, Persian pronunciation: [fæɾvæɾˈdiːn] [1]) is the Iranian Persian name for the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar, [1] the official calendar of Iran, and corresponds with Aries on the Zodiac. Farvardin has thirty-one days. [1] It is the first month of the spring season (Bahar), and is followed by ...
[citation needed] Persian exerted a strong influence on Balochi (an Iranian language) and Urdu, and a relatively strong influence on Pashto (another Iranian language), Punjabi and Sindhi. Other languages like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kashmiri and Bengali also have a considerable amount of loan words from Persian.
Changing the usage from Persian to Farsi may give the impression that "Farsi" is a new language, although this may well be the intention of some users of Farsi. Changing the usage may also give the impression that "Farsi" is a dialect used in some parts of Iran rather than the predominant (and official) language of the country.
Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...
In 1999, the word Farsi was removed from the state-language law, reverting the name to simply Tajik. As of 2004 [update] the de facto standard in use is the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet , [2] and as of 1996 [update] only a very small part of the population can read the Persian alphabet.
The phonology of the Persian language varies between regional dialects and standard varieties.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]
French Persian (Persian alphabet)Persian (Perso-Latin alphabet)Meaning and usage abat-jour آباژور âbâžor floor lamp, lampshade abcès آبسه âbse abscess ...
Romanization or Latinization of Persian (Persian: لاتیننِویسی فارسی, romanized: Lâtin-Nēvisiyē Fârsi, pronounced [lɒːtiːn.neviːˌsije fɒːɾˈsiː]) is the representation of the Persian language (Iranian Persian, Dari and Tajik) with the Latin script. Several different romanization schemes exist, each with its own ...