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Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iranian diaspora, PakistanPersian has had a considerable influence on neighboring languages, particularly the Turkic languages in Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia, neighboring Iranian languages, as well as Urdu. It has also exerted a smaller influence on Hindi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Saraiki and other South Asian languages.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Persian belongs to the Western group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, and is of the subject object verb type. The Western Iranian group contains other related languages such as Kurdish, Mazandarani, Gilaki, Talyshi and Baluchi. The language is in the Southwestern Iranian group, along with and very similar to the Tat language of Caucasus[citation needed] Larestani and Luri languages.[9] The international language encoding standard ISO 639-1 uses the code "fa", as its coding system is based on the local names. The more detailed draft ISO 639-3 uses the name "Persian" (code "fas") for the larger unit ("macrolanguage") spoken across Iran and Afghanistan, but "Eastern Farsi" and "Western Farsi" for two of its subdivisions (roughly coinciding with the varieties in Afghanistan and those in Iran, respectively).[17] Ethnologue, in turn, includes "Farsi, Eastern" and "Farsi, Western" as two separate entries and lists "Persian" and "Parsi" as alternative names for each, besides "Irani" for the western and "Dari" for the eastern form.[18][19]
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1. Keep your Spanish sharp with monthly Practice
October 22, 2009
Constant practice of anything will result in success, as many would agree upon. The saying is applicable to education, occupation and even hobbies. Learning a new language is fantastic hobby because it provides a fresh cultural perspective on every day expressions. For example in Hindi, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Malay and Indonesian, the word “dunia” means world. This broadens the outlook of cultures throughout the world, and the knowledge of other languages displays the unknowing similarities that all of us share. Latin languages such as Italian, Portuguese and Spanish are very similar wi... (read more)
Author: Chris Cornell
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2. Hindu
October 19, 2009
The word Hindu first appeared in the Old Persian language which was derived from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the Indus River in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent.[3] The usage of the word Hindu was further popularized by the Arabic term al-Hind referring to the land of the people who live across river Indus.[4] By 13th century, Hindustan emerged as a popular alternative name of India, meaning the "land of Hindus".[5] 'Hindus' came to be used for people regardless of their religious affiliation and mainly as a geographical term. It was only toward... (read more)
Author: Dalma Martinez
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