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Yes but to not to a complete extent, that would just be ridiculous.

 

i think he may mean something like what the turkish did

 

i'm not saying there is anything wrong with foreign elements in Modern Iranian, I am saying that Iranian words are being replaced, which will eventually be forgotten. 

I have Chinese friends who learn Ancient Chinese as well as modern Chinese, if I was Chinese, I probably wouldn't bother learning both ancient and modern, but the fact that the language is documented is good enough. In Japan they created Katakana (a new alphabet) so that foreign words could be incorporated into their language, but they didn't scrap Hirigana (their old alphabet) and even then, students still learn and use Kanji.

We have no great deal of records on old Iranian and Avestan, which is practically dead, the language is only known by a number of Parsees who only speak it for religious purposes, and I just don't want to see Avestan, for example, die with them.

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I think it would be beneficial in preserving Parsi, and I don't think it would have any dire consequences, so why not?

I heard there was a move to change western words that never existed in Parsi, ie. Television were changed to "Sada va Seema" and other wierd concoctions that never fully worked.

If there is to be a change, it would have to come from the modern literary center of the Persian world, and that is Iran.  Iran proliferates Persian material, and lots of Persian material are read in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

A similar revival came for Pashto with new dictionaries being created with new words that were invented.  Some have even gone as far as reviving Avestan words, but in the end its the common people that are key in spreading it.

I say start with poetry and books and let the people decide.

I am a non persian but I am learning some farsi and I tell those who teach me not to use any arabic words.  So, instead of saying Salam I think you would say dorood.  Is this correct? 

Right now I am reading a book by J.P. Mallory titled In search of the Indo-Europeans.  It is interesting

 

On another note, I was wondering if anyone has information on the similarities between the croats and ancient  aryans of Iran? 

The dying languages are mostly tribal languages around the world, Africa, Americas, Austuralia etc. National langages, especially the well preserved and wide ones dont die that easily unless there happens a program to ruin and assimilate the language.

Originally posted by niceone928 I am a non persian but I am learning some farsi and I tell those who teach me not to use any arabic words.  So, instead of saying Salam I think you would say dorood.  Is this correct?

i mean no disrespect to farsi language but it has lots of Arabic words and iam not sure if you didnt learn at least some of these words you will be able to understand what many iranian are saying.i mean if that was your goal by learning the language.

 

 

 

lol

that was for the Turkish words used officially in EGYPT and Countries like syria.

there are still some words used in the daily spoken language of egypt and some countries .

but not that many words are used Officially.

plus how may words are they? compared to the Arabic in Turkish and in Farisi?

would that be considered ridiculous?

 

 

Arabs can pronouce almost all the letters in the world, to make that part of your statment more correct you can say Arabs dont Have g in their Alphabet. so in writing these will be put as in J or k or gh.

and the pronounciation will change as per the writings,

i think its more confusing with the Farsi pronouncing many letters they write with.

 

 

hmmm

Ferdows is not mentioned in the Quran