Language/Iranian-persian/Pronunciation/Farsi-vs-Arabic

Persian is written with the letters of the Arabic alphabet and from right to left like Arabic, but the language remains very different from Arabic. Indeed, Arabic and Persian belong to completely different linguistic families and therefore the rules of the two languages will be different.

Originally the two languages did not resemble each other, but it began to resemble it by adopting a large number of loanwords from Arabic.

However, it is still a very different language. Persian is an Indo-European language, therefore from the same family as most European languages (including French). Arabic is a Semitic language, from the same family as Hebrew, Aramaic and Amharic (Ethiopia).

We can compare the situation to English, which has adopted a large number of French words, while remaining a Germanic language.

Note that modern Persian is written in the Arabic alphabet, with a few small adaptations