WebLe lingue curde (Kurdî, Kurdí, کوردؽ) non costituiscono un'unica entità linguistica standardizzata, si tratta invece di un continuum di varietà linguistiche strettamente legate tra loro, parlate in Asia Occidentale.Generalmente la lingua curda viene distinta in tre sottogruppi: la varietà settentrionale (), varietà centrale (sorani) varietà meridionale …

WebPersian (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən,-ʃ ən /), also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] ()), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible ...

WebName. Up to and including the nineteenth century, speakers in Afghanistan and Central Asia had no separate name for the language and simply regarded themselves as speaking Farsi, which is the endonym for the Persian language. The term Tajik, derived from the Persian for "foreigner", was an exonym used by Turkic speakers to refer to Persian speakers (the …

WebMiddle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (????????????????????????) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Persian continued to function as a prestige language. It descended from Old Persian, the language of the …

WebHamza (Arabic: همزة hamzah) (ء ‎) is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop [].Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters and owes its existence to historical inconsistencies in the standard writing system.It is derived from the Arabic letter ʿAyn (ع ‎). In the Phoenician and Aramaic alphabets, from which the Arabic alphabet is descended, the …

WebOld Persian is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of Sasanian Empire).Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as ariya (Iranian).. Old Persian appears primarily in the inscriptions, clay tablets and seals of the Achaemenid …

WebRussian dialects are spoken variants of the Russian language.. Russian dialects and territorial varieties are divided in two conceptual chronological and geographic categories: The dialects of the territory of the primary formation, which consist of "Old" Russia of the 16th century (before the Eastern conquests by Ivan the Terrible) and roughly correlate …

WebPersian and Urdu are distinct languages. Persian is classified as an Iranian language, whereas Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language.They fall under the larger grouping of the Indo-Iranian languages, and hence share some linguistic features due to common descent.. However, the majority of influence from Persian is direct, through a process often called …

WebThe Iranian languages or Iranic languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.. The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE–900 CE) and New Iranian (since …

WebIn the modern Perso-Arabic alphabet, the short vowels /æ/, /e/ and /o/ are usually left unwritten, as is normally done in the Arabic alphabet. (See Arabic phonology § Vowels.). Historical shifts. Early New Persian inherited from Middle Persian eight vowels: three short i, a, u and five long ī, ē, ā, ō, ū (in IPA: /i a u/ and /iː eː ɑː oː uː/).It is likely that this system …