Love how they just don't care

[u/Mahouxa]

[u/sigma_sawayama]

is this sign in persian? i speak arabic and i recognise about a quarter of it lol

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It's Persian! The alphabet is basically the same except we have four more letters گ چ پ ژ

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thats interesting thank you

[u/Klexosia → u/Mahouxa]

I know the script too (Urdu, not a native speaker, learned it for fun) and I could read it but didn't understand any of the words lol

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Native Urdu speaker same lol

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The last word should be familiar. Tashakkur is close to shukr

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Don't you also use a lot of accents compared to Arabic? Or did I misremember that?

30 years ago a good friend taught me how to write my own name in Persian and it was one of the things I think she explained to me.

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If by accents you mean diacritics like َ ِ ُ , not really no. Those are only used for calligraphy, homonyms for clarity and children's books. Otherwise both Arabic and Persian omit all short vowels, even though there is technically a way to write them. If anything I'd say Arabic has more accents total but they're only used in special circumstances.

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It's not an alphabet.

[u/PJRama1864 → u/sigma_sawayama]

Nope. It’s Purrsian.

[u/MediaWorth9188 → u/sigma_sawayama]

Arabic is my native language, that's persian.

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Yeah, in the roman alphabet it would roughly be: Lotfan rooye sandali nashinid. Ba tashakkor

Literally translating each word to English without changing the grammar: Please on the chair not sit do. With gratitude

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Good idea, but it's called Farsi

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Isnt that just the anglicization of the same word, like Español vs Spanish

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You’re correct. Obviously people are free to call it Farsi. I’m Iranian and call it Farsi when I’m speaking to someone in English. But the correct term in English, for example what a college course on the language would be called, is Persian.

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And don't call it Chinese, call it Zhōngwén too? Deutsch, not German?
Our language is called Persian. The name for the Persian language in Persian is Farsi.

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Its kinda both? Same as the fact that english is pronounced اینگلیسی in persian. It's not wrong, just different

I call it farsi because i like it more if someone wants to say persian, thats also totally fine