2007-03-10 16:51:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Nooo, they are completely different languages. They just share a similar alphabet; I believe Farsi has about 4 additional letters and different pronunciation of some of the sounds. But Persians/Iranians do know some Arabic because of learning the Quran.
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2007-03-10 16:58:12 · answer #1 · answered by YoMera 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Arabic is a semitic language, whereby Perisan is an indo-european language. There were many cultural exchanges between the two civilisations after the advent of Islam, and both influenced the vocabulary of the other. Especially religious terms went from the Arabic to the Persian. Both are written with similar alphabets, however some letters are pronounce differently. Some letters only exist in Persian.
2007-03-10 18:58:15 · answer #2 · answered by Reindeer Herder 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Arabic and Persian (Farsi) are from (2) two entirely different language groups: the first Semitic, the second Iranian (Indo-Aryan). When Arabic was young and being established Persian had a great influence on it, later on Arabic began to exert an excessive amount of influence on Farsi. There are lots of Persian words in Arabic, and now a lot of Arabic words in Persian. Knowing/understanding Arabic can be an advantage when learning Persian because of this. The same is true for Turkish; it is a language which if stripped of Arabic and Iranian Languages (~Kurdish and ~Farsi) would be paralyzed. Even the most basic concepts of the Turkish Language have no native equivalents, observe: "Merhaba / Selam (hello/greetings)" origin Arabic, "Zaman (time)" origin Arabic, "Saat (hour/clock|watch)" origin Arabic, "Hafta (week)" origin Iranian (~Kurdish ~Persian) --from the numeral (7) seven, "(7) Haft / Heft", etc. etc.
2016-03-05 11:02:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ser 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No no no no no no no nooooooooo!
We (mighty Persians) are Aryans.
Them Arabs are Arabs!
And language-wise, Persians and Arabs may have the same alphabets (don't because Persians have 4 more letters) but the language is very very very very very different. VERY different!
Like you know, how many languages use the English alphabets?!
Most of Persians and Arabs get angry if you call them the other name so I would advise you not to do it!
The same goes for Japanese and Chinese people!
2007-03-10 17:23:55 · answer #4 · answered by Samantha 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Arabic itself is a semitic language like hebrew and aramaic... Farsi is an indo-european language with roots in both germanic languages and languages stemming from the indus valley region.
The reason there is so much confusion is because Farsi is written in arabic script and uses many arabic words. This is a biproduct of Arab rule and the spread of Islam and you will find many similarities in vocabulary if you study both, but that's just about it. Grammatically the languages differ completely, especially in the fact that arabic has strict gender agreement whereas farsi has no means of identifying gender at all. You'll probably find more similarities between farsi and hindi/urdu.
2007-03-10 20:52:33 · answer #5 · answered by sasa 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Persian language makes use of Arabic letters. it particularly is the main advantageous similarity. As they borrowed words from Arabic and we -in Arabic- borrowed from them to boot. the rationalization is the because of the fact of geographical closeness.
2016-09-30 12:27:32 · answer #6 · answered by bebber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arabs speak Arabic and Persians speak Persian, pronounced "Farsii."
There are some cultural differences too. I don't know them.
Peace.
2007-03-10 17:08:30 · answer #7 · answered by husam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.Arabs are Semites and Persians are Aryan and the language is different
2007-03-10 16:56:06 · answer #8 · answered by October 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2007-03-10 16:55:00 · answer #9 · answered by XX 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you talk about the language, they are
as similar as English to Spanish
2007-03-10 16:56:36 · answer #10 · answered by ♀La Femme►☼ 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋