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

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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.

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).

However Persian has been adopting a large number of loanwords from Arabic.

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.

== Persian VS Arabic letters ==
Here are all the letters of the Persian and Arabic alphabets. Every letter in Arabic exists in Persian, but Persian has four additional letters, shown below:
{| class="wikitable"
!Name (Persian)
!Letter (isolated)
!Arabic/Persian
|-
|hamze
|ء
|In both
|-
|ʾalef
|ا
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|be
|ب
|In both
|-
|pe
|پ
|Persian only,  pronounced p
|-
|te
|ت
|In both
|-
|se
|ث
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|jim
|ج
|In both
|-
|che
|چ
|Persian only,  pronounced ch
|-
|haa-ye jimi
|ح
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|khe
|خ
|In both
|-
|daal
|د
|In both
|-
|zaal
|ذ
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|re
|ر
|In both
|-
|ze
|ز
|In both
|-
|zhe
|ژ
|Persian only
|-
|sin
|س
|In both
|-
|shin
|ش
|In both
|-
|saad
|ص
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|zaad
|ض
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|taa
|ط
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|zaa
|ظ
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|ʿayn
|ع
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|ghayn
|غ
|In both
|-
|fe
|ف
|In both
|-
|qaff
|ق
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|kaaf
|ک
|In both
|-
|gaaf
|گ
|Persian only,  pronounced g
|-
|laam
|ل
|In both
|-
|mim
|م
|In both
|-
|nun
|ن
|In both
|-
|vaav
|و
|In both, but pronunciation is different
|-
|haa-ye  do-cheshme
|ه
|In both
|-
|ye
|ی
|In both
|}

* Source: https://discoverdiscomfort.com/farsi-persian-vs-arabic-similarities-and-differences/

==Related Lessons==
* [[Language/Iranian-persian/Pronunciation/Alphabet-and-Pronunciation|Alphabet and Pronunciation]]
* [[Language/Iranian-persian/Pronunciation/Accents|Accents]]