hi. i like to know your opinion about arabic language and persian . are they the same or they are different.
2007-01-12 15:43:05 · 10 answers · asked by bp9770 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Arabic is a Semitic language; Farsi is Indo-European so Farsi shares more commonality with English and German and Hindi.
Farsi is spoken by the people of Persia, once an Eastern empire straddling Iraq, the Iranian heartland and parts of Central Asia that once held the balance of power of the antiquities with the Roman empire of the West.
Arabic was initially spoken by the people of the Arabian peninsula and due to the spread of Islam became the lingua franca of Muslimdom, spanning from Morocco to the Philippines, as the Quran is in Arabic and prayers are recited in Arabic.
The reason people get so confused is because both languages use the same basic alphabets although in Farsi the fonts might be uniquely Farsi and there are additional alphabets thrown in to accommodate sounds that are either absent or not represented in Arabic; such as 'ch' and 'p'.
The Islamisation of Persia means that the usage of a common script is inevitable, (thus the arabic script used) and finally both languages are natives of the part of the world where we identify as the 'Middle East'.
As much as I can't tell the nationality of a fair-headed person before he or she starts talking, I would equally be at a total loss telling apart an Iraqi, an Irani or a Syrian.
2007-01-12 20:25:20 · answer #1 · answered by tomQ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Persian is more closely related to European languages than Arabic is. Although it is not Latin-based, you would find several important similarities between Persian and Latin (or any Romance language). Any language can be written in any alphabet -- you could write English in the Arabic alphabet. The earlier poster is correct in saying that the fact that Persians use the Arabic alphabet is a consequence of the Arabic conquest.
2016-03-17 23:44:55 · answer #2 · answered by Kera 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are very different - Arabic is a Semetic language, Persian is an Indo European language. They just happen to both be written in the Arabic alphabet, but that's all they have in common. Linguistically speaking, Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic!
2007-01-12 15:47:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
Yes, absolutely. I dated a man from Iran for two years, and learned some Farsi myself. I am a linguist also, and Persian verbs are constructed very much like French verb structure. Arabic is a much more complicated structure, different alphabet.
2007-01-12 16:05:59 · answer #4 · answered by Heather 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
They are different languages using the same alphabet, like English and German. Persian is called Farsi nowadays.
2007-01-12 15:47:49 · answer #5 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
definately they are different.and its more difficult for persian people to learn arabic than english.but because or some reason many words of arabic(with different accent) is common in persian.and persian has been chosen as the sweatest language
2007-01-12 19:36:53 · answer #6 · answered by wiZzZ 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes.Outside of Israel,the rest of the middle eastern countries' language is arabic.The exception is Iran(Persia).They are not Arabs.
2007-01-12 16:48:00 · answer #7 · answered by nicko 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Arabic and Farsi are very different, and sound different too.
2007-01-12 15:50:27 · answer #8 · answered by catwomanmeeeeow 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Don't quote me on this, but I believe that persian is called pharsi, and arabic is...well...arabic.
2007-01-12 15:47:33 · answer #9 · answered by ___ 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
yes i would no cause im arabian!
2007-01-12 16:20:15 · answer #10 · answered by al a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋