Farsi

Farsi or Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, a standard and well-recognized tongue as early as the 6th century B.C. E. Persian was the language of the great Persian Empire which at one time extended from the Mediterranean to the Indus River in India.The language was written in Cuneiform, the wedge-shaped characters used throughout much of the ancient world. In the 2nd century B.C. the Persians created their own alphabet, known as Pahlavi, which remained in use until the Islamic conquest of the 7th century. Since that time Persian has been written in the Arabic script with a number of additional characters to accommodate special sounds. Modern Persian is spoken by over 40 million people in Iran and another 5 million in Afghanistan. English words of Persian origin include shawl, pajama, taffeta, khaki, kiosk, divan, lilac, jasmine, julep, jackal, caravan, bazaar, checkmate, dervish, and satrap.

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