The Persian Language and What Makes It Fascinating
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- In this video I talk about the Persian language (Farsi, Dari, Tajik) and what`s fascinating about it. Persian often lives in the shadow of Arabic, but Persian is a major language in its own right. *Learn Persian with Persian Pod101: ► bit.ly/Persianpod101 ◄
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Outdtanding presentation. I am 86 years old and am almost motivated to start studying Persian.
Richard Wilson 👏👏👏👏👏❤
It's very good dear Richard.
What's your purpose of learning Persian?
It's worth it just reading Hafez, but then again it's mot just him you can read... there will be a world of poetry
Richard Wilson good luck 👍
It is Farsi not Persian. In the Middle East it is known as Farsi not Persian. You go to Iran, they
all will tell you their language is Farsi and not Persian. Use of the terminology "Persian" in the
West is politically motivated.
I am from Afghanistan. I have spoken with Iranians and Tajikis and we could understand each other easily. the accents are very beautiful.
Persian is the language of Art, Love and poet.
What is your mother tongue and how well you understand the languages of the other ethnicals groups in your country?
Further questions, maybe included in the question above:
- How well understand the Dari and Pashto speaking people each other?
- And is there any difference between Tajiks in Afghanistan and Tajikistan?
@@StefanFuchsreiter
1- my mother tongui is persian/dari/farsi but I don't understand other languages in my country such as pashtu, uzbeki, turki, etc.
2- though pashtu and farsi has a lot of words in common, but you can't understand each other. In my understanding, most of people who speak Pashtu understands and knows persian, but people who speak Persian do not undersant pashtu.
3- I speak in terms of accent and language. well Tajiks in Afghanistan live in different areas (Herat, Badakhshan, Panjshir, Balkh, etc.) and their accent is a little different from each other. and yeah, they are different with the Tajiks of Tajikestan. I spoke with a guy from Tajikestan last year, though I could understand easily, but there are some very old and ancient words they still use in their language and that was very interesting for me.
Tashakor!! 😊🙌🏼
@@StefanFuchsreiter I also have a question. When you heard Persian and Arabic for the first time and you did not understand which one is which, did u feel both of them are similar?
I want to know that are spoken arabic and persian very similar to each other for a foreigner?
@@adanesh To be honest, I can't remember when I heard it for the first time. I guess most people hear in Austria respectively German speaking countries think they both sound similar because they don't listen properly and don't really care. But actually the Arabic language sounds very harsh because of the many throat sounds while Persian seems more melodic and faster to me. I think arguments or discussions of a group of old Persian men sound very funny, they are kinda busy all the time ;) It reminds me also a bit of Hindi - no wonder, they are related.
But I could never distinguish Persian/Farsi/Dari from Pashto, Tajik or Kurdish etc.
That's why I asked you the first question.
I have another question for you: Can you recognize German among the other Germanic languages (Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) or is it too difficult for you, cause in Afghanistan you don't get in touch with European languages (except English) or cultures?
Thank you for this amazing video! I am an Uzbek from Uzbekistan, but I am also a Tajik speaker! I have read Shahnameh, Firdowsi, actually it was in school curriculum! I love the Persian language, and have roots from modern day Iran! There is no other language in the world more beautiful than Persian/Tajik! ❤❤❤
Are you an actual Tajik? because Tajiks ARE Persian. Did you know Al Bukhari, Ibn Sina, and Al Khwarizmi were Persians, and Uzbekistan was Persia, it was called "Khorasan" which means 'where the sun arrives" in Persian language. Later mongols came and massacred that part of Persia killing so many Persians, and after that seljuks came inhabted those lands and those the Uzbeks today.
@@agostocobain2729 how Beautifull you fake story😮
I just love Iran and it’s people. Was there five times and each time was amazing…..
Aw, thank you dear!
Thanks man. Wish to know why you like here?
That's amazing, what made you to go to Iran!
thanks man, we hope everyone know that
I hope you have a good time, come to Iran again and we will receive you ❤️
Hands down, Persian is the most poetic language in the world. Even the name sounds poetic love from Australia!🇦🇺❤🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯
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آره
From a native speaker of it I just can say thank you beautiful ❤️
Lots of love from iran🧡
@@fatemehzeinali.k5996 ساعت ۳ شب چرا بیداری اینجا😁
@@diywithreza تو چرا ساعت چهار صبح بیداری😅😂
Finally someone who knows the diffrence between persian and arabic🙂❤
هههههههه
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
👏🏻
دقیقا
@@rezamasoudi740 اره.اونجا سر هر چیزی ی ال اضافه میکنن😂😂😂
As an Egyptian I am interested in Persian history, culture and language 🇪🇬❤🇮🇷🇹🇯🇦🇫
thank you I guess lol
Thanks and all Persians feel the same about Egypt
برای من که اهل افغانستان هستم هیچ زبانی در سطح دنیا برایم فارسی نمیشود فارسی زیباست و بزرگ، افتخار میکنم که زبانم فارسی است. 🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯
🇦🇫 ❤️ 🇹🇯 Love you my brothers and sisters from Iran
Dude imagine if we all assimilated woo wee a true force to be reckon with
You are not welcome in Afghanistan. Move to Iran , Tajikistan or where the other hell they speak your language. Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns.
🎉❤💯
@@agostocobain2729we would take over the world. Long live Afghanistan and Iran and my dear Tajiks. My ethnicity is Tajik so I have love for them too!
Persian is a beautiful and very expressive language. I have bachelordegree in Persian and I've been in Iran eight times. So wonderful people...
@@hameedpaiman5855 shame on you
Hameed Paiman
خفه هزاره مغول
I'm glad you like iranian people.
People are good
But as anyone know our government is......
@@hameedpaiman5855 I'm actually Swedish with a German surname. You should be ashamed! Iranians are a very generous and lovely people. It's problems with the government, not the warm and fantastic people.
glad you liked visiting us azizam
I'm Tajik🇹🇯 I respect and love Afghanistan🇦🇫 and Iran🇮🇷 because we are one people.
Long live Persian
actually...All the people of the world are one people...we don't deffer...Love everybody
@@alideveloper6945 Com away, boy.
ایول!
as iranian we love all of you god bless you
Hey! Love from Iran!
Великий и могучий персидский язык! 😊
😂😂😂
Монгол, который потерял свой язык и перенял тюркский язык. Это твоя история, чем будешь оправдываться? @@user-vx8rz9yi5g
@@user-vx8rz9yi5gчто рот разинул обезяна?
I had several Iranian friends when I was in college, I learned a few Farsi phrases which I’ve long since forgotten but I remember how lovely a spoken language it was. What I especially remember about them though, is how friendly and hospitable they were. No matter what time of day it was, if you stopped by they insisted on feeding you at least coffee or tea and something to eat. I’ve lost track of them but I hope they are all doing well.
If you wanna learn Persian I can help you I am gonna be teaching Persian in my channel
Thanks its in every Persian blood hospitality from the hard
Farsi in my opinion is the most poetic language I've ever heard.
Sorry, Arabic Fus'ha
Sweetest language I ever heard
Very close to my mother tongue balochi
Some time ago, I read a comment saying that Persian sounded like the language a dragon would speak.
I love irani poetry 😍🤗persian language ❤👌👍
language of Firdausi, Rumi and Hafeez...world literature
As a native Persian speaker, I'm here to tell you that Persian poems are so, so beautiful. I mean, you can't find anything like them anywhere. I'm so happy that Persian is my first language so that I can read them all and enjoy them. And I'm so happy that you made this video. Thank you! It's nice to see someone acknowledges the difference between Persian and Arabic. Arabic almost has nothing to do with our language.
I'm from Pakistan and Farsi was the official language of United Hindustan for many centuries...Our qawals and singers still sing Persian songs and we enjoy them a lot..We have many Persian proverbs and words in our languages..I have studied Persian grammar and I'm learning more vocabulary and I love poems of Jami, Rumi, Iqbal, Ameer khusro etc...Ameer khusro is such a different thing because he has mixed Farsi with Urdu in such a way that you will enjoy the chemistry...We have Farsi as a subject in an optional course our curriculum..Most of our religious and poetic work is still in Persian...In Almost every religious school, Persian is a compulsory subject..That's one fact that I wanted to share because I think the statistics in this video is wrong..No one speaks Farsi in Pakistan and India but at least between 10 to 20 million people can understand Farsi...
Arabic is a complete language though.
(I'm an Iranian btw)
I am grateful to my dear Iranian friend here in California who introduced me to the beauty of Persian poetry. Even though in English translation, it was still so beautiful, I can only imagine what it's like in the original language. She also introduced me to some wonderful Persian music.
Yup I agree with you its such a beautiful language with Most meaning full beautifully Rhyming Poems , Urdu had a great Influence of Persian.
Pakistanis can read Persian easily (and Arabic as well ) cause of a common script.
And to some extent I can guess What a Persian Person is speaking. I would say its a Delicious & Cute language. Urdu Poems are also very similar to Persian, Poetry of Alama Iqbal (our national poet) is My favorite with a Beautiful & revolutionary meanings and effects on Our society and Muslim World. he also wrote a lot in Persian
I'm happy you guys are finding Persian and its poems enjoyable! :)
Here I learned a lot about history of my country language (Persian) from a non Iranian scholar! Well done Paul, you are fantastic.
Thanks, Ahmad! I appreciate the kind words.
Persian is one of the most influential languages in the history of civilizations.
BTW.. Persian was used as a court language in India up until the late 19th century. Indian and Pakistani courts still use many Persian legal jargon during proceedings,
Persian was court language in Northern India not in South India or Maharashtra.
Only in Muslim sultanates and Mughal empires. Not by the Travancore, Maratha, Rajput and Sikhs.
+Vaibhav Shah even in the British courts my friend.. "Tazirat e Hind", which means Indian Statute, "Zer e Dafaa" which means under section, "Mulzim" which means accused, "mujrim" which means convicted.. So on and so forth.. I'm sure u must be familiar with these Persian terms which are still used
channelthegijoeshow yes of course. But using Persian loan words is very different from using the Persian language. There are a few Persian loan words in Marathi and a lot in Punjabi but that does not mean that the entire language was used. During the British colonial process, Maratha empire was the largest in India with Marathi as its official language. Followed by the Sikh empire with Punjabi and the Rajputana with Marwadi. Only the Sultanate and Nizams used Persian in their courts...which consisted of a small portion of India. If you go to South of India, the languages are almost untouched by Persian which shows that it did not have much of an influence in the south apart from Hyderabad and Telangana. They have more English influence than Persian. Persian influenced only the North Indian languages and Gujarati. Even then Gujarati has always been a mixing pot of loan words due the mercantile trade. The most affected language was of course old Hindustani or Khari Boli due to Islamic conquest of Delhi for 500+ years.
+Afghan /Pathan لایک داری برادر
I really like how Farsi sounds, soft and beautiful in my opinion. I had some Persian friends in Cyprus. Greetings frkm Cyprus!
woww, as a native Persian speaker and an Iranian, I am so impressed by the accuracy and eloquence of your presentation. Also the way you differentiated Persian from Arabic was something exceptional among non-Persian speakers. Thank you.
As a Persian I'm very satisfied with this video and wanted to thank you fro making it! It's very educational to those who have no clue about Persian. I also assumed you were Iranian because I usually don't see others talk about Persian so I was even more glad to find that this wasn't the case and Persian must have interested you enough to make multiple videos on!
Even Persians have names like Mitra ? Its a very common name in India and comes from old Sanskrit.
@@ranjitneelakandan9551 Yes because it's origin is Indo-Iranian we refer to it as a Persian name, though the name isn't among the most common ones
@@mitraj7763 Wow!
@@ranjitneelakandan9551 sanskrit from old indo iranian...
I m a Tajik Persian from Tajikistan enjoyed your video thank you
Dorood bar hamvatan Tajik Zende bad empraturie Pars
I am an ex-pat who is fluent in casual Dari but this has really motivated me to learn more formal Persian in order to be able to access our rich culture and literature. 🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯
you can easily talk with all iranians :))
آسونه 😀
I can teach you Persian
🇮🇷🇮🇷🇦🇫🇦🇫🇹🇯
you dont need anything more we can easily speak & understand eachother! you dnt trust me?lets talk❤❤》》》》درود بر شما الیاس خانم
Thank you so much for the information, Paul! And so, in addition to Firdaoshi from the ancient Tajiks (Iranians), there are dozens of world scientists. Such as Al Beruni, Al Khorezmi, Omar Khayyam, Shirazi, Mavlana Rumi, Bedil, Rudaki, Ibni Sina (Avicenna), Al Bukhari, Abu Hanifa and dozens, if not hundreds of other great scientists. Thank you very much again for the video!
Please don't add the AL prefix because we, people with the Farsi language, don't call our great celebrities with the prefix AL !
Can we just take a bit to appreciate Paul? Fr. He’s funny, handsome, smart, and entertaining.
The difference between Farsi and Dari is similar to the difference between American English and Scottish. The Scots can very fluently understand the Americans, but an American would have a hard time understanding Scott. Just as an afghan would easily understand an Iranian, but an Iranian typically would have more trouble understanding an Afghan.
Exactly as an afghan I understand whatever an Iranian says but they don't get properly what I say.
Actually, I have no problem understanding Afghan people.
@@sael52 just as some Americans don't have a problem understanding Scott's speaking English. But not the norm
It mostly has to do with how often you hear the dialect spoken. Afghan Persian speakers have had more encounters with Iranian Persian speakers (Tehrani dialect in particular) on average than vise versa. But I can tell from personal experience that with a little exposure you will understand them as easily they understand you.
@@parhamrahimi8050 I grew up with Afghans and Iranians. Afghani people typically understand Iranians far more easily than Iranians understand them, exposure or not..
Seeing you excited about 10k subs when you have nearly a mil makes me smile
Those were the days!
@@Langfocus 1.2m
Twas 4 years ago honey. Congrats Paul! Ang galing mo!!!
he has over a million now
I'm American, from Kentucky, and I have long thought that Farsi is the most beautiful language to listen to. And Iranian food is the most delicious.
As an Iranian i must say that most of your content was true and based on research and valid documents. It shows that you are going the right way, good luck.
The word "Balcony" is also of Persian origin... Bal (Bala) = Upper, Cony (Khune) = House
+Neema Paxima Haha never thought of it that way.
+Neema Paxima Apparently this is where the term 'Balkans' came from aswell. As it sat above the far Western reaches of the various Persian empires
+Neema Paxima
Nice one thanks for sharing. There are many English and European words of Persian origin actually. Look at Wiki, also many country names were first used by Persians, and now are their international names:
Including followings but not limited to:
Goryo > Koryo > Korea
Qin > Chin > China
Hindustan
Arabestan (don't like this one)
and ...
Why do u look mughal ?
dj crudept
Iranian Azeris directly draw their lineage from the Turkic/Mongol confederations of Genghis Khan. That blood line has spread amongst the Iranian population, some Iranians will have Turkic and Mongol features due to this. Same as the Hazara of Afghanistan.
Loved it mate. I'm a Persian language teacher in Australia and I shared your video with all my Australian students. Really well done. Big like,
+Saeed Hafezy Thanks! I appreciate that!
Cheers to your buddy
Huh man! This is unbelievable 😳 I'm Iranian and my language is persain but I didn't know about history of my language deeply from so many years ago.... that was amazing
Thank you for your complete explanation 😊
correct. being native Urdu speaker I can confirm that speaking and understanding Persian language is very easy for me and Urdu borrows a lot from Persian / Farsi language
But urdu is originated from hindi, as i’ve seen indians and pakistanis speaking same language with each other
@@Persian568 But, Farsi was used as the language for business communication in most of India until the 19th century. Hindustani (the language family comprising of Hindi and Urdu) has many influences, Farsi being one of them.
@@akilanelango8997 heck no Afghans and iranis have entirely different genes from desis
I'm an Persian speaker from Afghanistan, we Persian people love the people all around the world
really? what about the jews?
Well speaking Persian doesn't make you Persian, Specially if you are Afghan
But afghans are not Persian، just iranian are Persian.
Smoodox was redest du für einen Müll? Unterscheide bitte zwischen Iranern und Afghanen. Afghanen haben eine ganz andere Mentalität und ich gebe zu, die meisten integrieren sich nicht. Aber Iraner? Noch nie was negatives gehört in Deutschland über Iraner die hier leben.
@@moe2329 They are against zionism not jews, it's not that difficult.
Turn on you TV and see propaganda to understand. At least they are not ruled by sick clowns
موفق باشید فارسی زبانان عزیز در سراسر جهان. از افغانستان.
Be success! All dear persian speakers in around the world.
From Afghanistan.🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯
Ashraf Sadat
قربونت رفیق😉
Zendeh bad baradar mehrban afghan:-)
❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 from Iran & Iranian
zende bashid!
Thank you Ashraf Jaan. ممنون عزیزم
How dare you educate me on my own culture/language :DD
Thanks for the video, enjoyed it quite a lot!
thank you for creating such a great content on Persian by far thee most poetic language ever exited!
It’s my pleasure. I’m glad you like it! 😊
I'm from iran and I love travel to Tajikistan and Afghanistan because they are like my family ❤❤❤ thanks
فدات برادرم هر وقت عزم سفر کردی از کابل شروع تا تخار و بدخشان در خدمتم😊💚
@arshiamdne سلام خوبی ؟
@arshiamdne قربانت اهل کجایی؟
Welcome to Ossetia! We are Indo-Iranian too!
@muscular bear به امیدت برسی.
من هزاره-فارسی زبان اهل افغانستان مرکزی
My father is tajik and mother is russian. And I am proud of my Slavic and Persian halfs :) Salomat boshed barodaron va hoharoni aziz. Salam az Russia )
Lowest of the genetic pool
а где живешь? я сам Иранец)
Kako Mohammed fuck you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Миша Южный mamnoon. Arezu e movafaqiat baraye shoma dust e aziz
fada mada from fars area :* ♥
I am a Persian speaker and I like my language very much. Persian language is very beautiful.💖💖
Hello, I am an Afghani living in Iran. You said that 25-30% of Afghans are Persian speakers, but the reality is that 70% are Persian speakers.
تشکر که در مورد زبانم ویدیو ساختید🇦🇫🇮🇷🌎Thank you for making a video about my language.
I am a south korean, learning farsi. This is really great video I think! Thanks
what made you interested in Persian language in this age ?
Hey! I'm actually an iranian learning korean! Let's be friends :)))
Wow I’m trying to learn Korean and your trying to learn Farsi . Your language and culture is so beautiful. Good luck on learning Farsi.
안녕하새요 저는 헌국어를 배웁니다....lets be 친구 ... I'm iranain 🤗
Any advice on how you're learning?
بسی رنج بردم در این سال سی
عجم زنده کردم بدین پارسی
زنده باد فردوسی🍀❤
در واقع روحش شاد😄❤🖤
@@faradaz714 در واقع نام و یادش زنده باد.
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
البته واژه "عجم" معنای جالبی نداره و عرب ها به هرکی که در بلاد نزدیکشون(بعد از اسلام و به دلیل فخرفروشی از این بابت که قرآن عربی و پیامبر عرب هست) عرب نبوده این صفت رو میدادن به معنی گنگ و کسی که نفهمه و طبق گواه خیلی از کارشناسان تاریخی و ادبیاتی این بیت شعر رو به فردوسی به دروغ نسبت دادن
سس ماست داداش
It was so cool! Thank You so much for your accurate and complete information ♡♡♡
Thank you for introducing the persian language really well to the world :)
As a native persian speaker, I'm so glad to see that there are still some people who are interested in learning this pure language. Thanks for creating this awesome video.
As a shortwave radio listener during my youth I used to listen to radios of many countries. That is when I decided that the most beautiful language to listen to is Farsi. It is so musical. Regards from Ankara.
Im also persian too! I love it when it gets brought up because I feel more proud to be persian!
Remove arabic completely from the language and your names. Until then it is impure and bears marks of islamic slavery that your ancestors had to go through.
Also, stop using that arabic script. Use the pre-islamic script that developed for persian language.
@@gauravshah89 Arabic is what makes the persian script beautiful.
I am from Tajikistan and I love and respect Iran and Afghanistan. I have many Afghan and Iranian friends I enjoy speaking in Farsi with, and we are indeed one. 😄
There were tears in my eyes, but I do not know why I am reading your comment at this time when I have an exam tomorrow o( ̄▽ ̄)d
And we should be happy that we have Avicenna
Hats off to you with your knowledge about languages.
Persian is not written in Arabic Script its Arabic that's written in persian script
I started studying Persian / Farsi yesterday, and although I was aware that it’s an Indo-European language, I was still pleasantly surprised to find recognizable cognates with English and other European languages, even though the languages diverged millenia ago.
Take for example the word for girl - دختر - dokhtar (doxtar/doxˈtʰæɾ).
Compare this with English daughter; Scots dochter; Icelandic dóttir; Norwegian datter; Danish datter; Swedish dotter; West Frisian dochter; Dutch dochter; Afrikaans dogter; Luxembourgish Duechter; German Tochter; Yiddish טאָכטער (tokhter); Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌰𐍂 (dauhter); Lithuanian duktė; Russian дочь (dočʹ); Sanskrit दुहितृ (dúhitṛ).
We’re all more connected than we realize.
Hi do have any advice on learning Farsi? I'm trying to learn because I want to travel to Qom, Iran. But I don't know a single word of Farsi. I want to start somewhere but it's overwhelming
ZenFox | Yep! I know Farsi and I was born and raised here in London. There are quite a few similiaries. If you need help, drop your contact information down below. I’m currently learning Japanese and Spanish so wish me luck!
I wish Persian did not adopt the Arabic script. Like Turks did in the 1930s.
👌❤️❤️
@@marmary5555 Actually that Arabic script makes any language very hard to read.
My husband and I just got our DNA results back. We found it interesting that he has 10% Persian in it. We're now trying to learn about the regions culture.
Where are you from? :|
@@ramtinjokar1545 North Dakota
Nice, u got a little elite blood in u
If you needed help, I would happily deliver
@@ahrya3148 that comment is considered racist in western world.
As a Pakistani i can say our language is derived mostly from Persian and our poets were among the greatest poets of " Farsi" ♡♥♡
You can understand Hindi-Urdu more than Persian. Urdu,It's Sanskrit Khariboli derived. You have identity crisis.
@@bijoydasudiya oh man we understand hindi cuz its same in spoken to urdu but our urdu letters are all from Arabic and Persian not derived from hindi
@@amiboi9768 so, he is right. Your language is derived mostly from Hindi. We are not talking about your alphabet. That's like saying that modern turkish is mostly derived from latin.
@༼ཆ༽ u all are saying right its just like hindi in speaking mostly not entirely but hindi is derived from sansikrit and urdu is a language derived from different languages thats why its called urdu which means "group" its derived from persian, arabic , turkish and such other languages in speaking though it is mostly just like hindi
@༼ཆ༽ Urdu has mostly Persian words.
That was very nice 👍🏻
As a Persian I really enjoy seeing such videos that are spreading great info on my language
Thank you 🙌🏻🇮🇷🇮🇷❤️
Do not hate each other dear persian speaker nations!
We have got the same history and blood. Political and religious games are divided us into 3 parts. We have to Respect each other as your brother and sister. Dividing is forbidden for us!
I, as an Iranian, wanna say that I love all Persian speakers. no matter how different their accent, culture, and religions are.
I don't. I like to stay seperated
I dont hate those who shares tradition language history with my dear country
We don't hate each other, we hate the powers that keep us separated!!
@@setarehsh97 MECI AZIZ AM
Shah Mat means the king is helpless.
It is a common mistake since "mat" means dead in Arabic but the source is Persian and not Arabic.
If it was "mord" originally then it's logical. Chess was introduced to Europe via the kingdom of Al-Andalus in Spain, where the Arabic speakers probably corrupted "mord" to "mat" to keep the same meaning but in Arabic, while still maintaining a similar sound to the original word.
In Arabic, we say كش ملك "kish melik" which is rather malformed but means roughly "chase king".
+Eli Malinsky
i was going to say that shah mat is arabic but you cleared that out for me. thanks mate ;)
''maat'' is persian for ''shocked''! not ''maat'' in arabic/verb//meaning ''died''!
***** oh wow! It is really interesting. Thanks for sharing mate. :)
I love you TAJIKISTAN IRON AFGHANISTAN 🇹🇯🤝🇮🇷🤝🇦🇫 Persian salam bay forson az Tajikistan
Saaaalaaaam 🇮🇷🇹🇯☝️we are one
I am from Tajikistan I love all people who speak Persian and respect Tajiks Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Uzbekistan India Kurdistan and others I respect other Muslim brothers who speak a different language Arabic Kyrgyz Uzbek Kazakh Arabic but I love everything...
I am Turkish and love Farsi!! Would love to learn that Amazing language❤️❤️
İran ! Farsça Dili !
Yashasin iran and turkey
Harika , iyi şanslar. Selam Irandan.
بهتره سریع تر پس یاد بگیری!! تازه سلام!😀
Then you better learn it as fast as possible!! By the way hi!😀
Nah we iranian hate turkish
LOVE FROM ROMANIA❤️ZENDE BAAD IRAN !!!❤️❤️❤️
Love Romania from Iran❤viva Romania❤❤❤❤❤❤
afshin ansari
Thank you🤗
Salut si numai bine! Viva Romania!
Love Romanian from Iran
Bella Cruz ❤️❤️
Thank you so much for introducing Persian ❤️❤️
This video is nice and true.
I am an Iranian and just I can say thank you for introduce my language 💚🤍❤️.
l speak Kurdish , love my Persian brothers and sisters
Tnx sister viva aryan peopel بژی کورد
kurdish is a farsi sub branch language .and kurds are iranain. no mater where the live.
We love you too my friend
@@alpha-hl9dy Keep Crying:)
@@alpha-hl9dy that is so stupid of you to say. Kurds are not Iranians but rather just in the same language family.
As an indian i really admire & respect our cultured neighbors in persia
Then why do you hate pakistan 😂
Pakistan is Iran's neighor, not India. Its like saying Turkey's neighbor is Afghanistan.
@@asimirfan623 Thanks to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for creating my Beautiful Bangladesh by breaking Pakistan apart. Joy Bangla ⚔️🇧🇩⚔️🇧🇩⚔️🇧🇩
@@disciplinedg6682 in the past pakistan was part of india but they were muslim and wanted to be separated from them. And they succeeded
@@KnockerTheExtraordinaire there was no pakistan or india, it was British Raj, prior to that there were different kingdoms; Sikh Empire, Mughal, Qalaat, and Sindh, etc...
great presentation of Persian language,. Great Job Langfocus
I am Native speaker Persian (from Iran)
Very nice video,I am so proud we had Hafez , Sadi , Molana , So glad our language did not change right after Islam came to our culture.
Thank you !
خيلى ممنون 🙏🏻🥰
Majority of Muslims don't even speak Arabic,my own people are an example.
4 years ago: 10k subscribers
Now: 1M subscribers
Congratulations!
Thanks, but the number of views is the same and the money’s the same. The only difference now is that people have insanely high expectations of me.
@@Langfocus 😅
Persian language is the language of poetry. Don't forget reading the beautiful and thought provoking poems of Omar Khayyam, Hafiz, and Rumi. The poems of love.
Heeeeey, as a german...I have to defend our status as "the language of poets AND big thinkers" (we are greedy like that) by listing Goethe, Grimm, Heine, Rilke, Tucholsky, Schiller, Brecht, Lessing, Kästner, Busch, Ende, Mann, Marx, Engels..Nietzsche, Kant, von Braun, Benz, Fraunhofer, Zeiss, Porsche, Einstein, Koch, Zuse, Humboldt and all the great chemists i forget every time
@@YeeSoest Goethe was very much influenced by Persian poets. But yes German has a lot of poets too.
@Anton Boludo Watch this poetic short film in Persian: ruclips.net/video/ivfTrElqUV8/видео.html
Thanks for covering our language! دستت درد نکنه
Thank you Paul! You’re information is inspirational ! :)
10,000 at January? You're close to 200,000! Congratulations on the rapid channel growth
+Rubik's Cube Thanks!
quality content --> many subscribers !
ahahahhahaha thatwhat i was about to say!!!
Conner Miller now, 3 months later 275000!
As of July 2017, he's up to 360,000+ subscribers!
Persian is something like French of the east. It is the language of the literature. If you would try to learn the history of Turkish people, you should learn Persian too.
French is Persian of the west.
Bro the language of literature in Europe, is german
@Bahraini Girl zaboni faronsavi zebotar ast nisbat ba forsi barodar!
@Bahraini Girl i said french is more beautiful then persian
@Bahraini Girl i wrote it in persian because i thought 😂 you are persian , sorry pls
Your channel is captivating!! Learning a lot about languages.
3:31 Thank you for saying that.☺
Thank you for video from Tajikistan, Afghanistan &lran Persian people, respect from Tajikistan.♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Greetings from Tajikistan!🇹🇯
We do love you Iran cause we're all from one blood, one land and one language.
L o n g live the Persians of Iran, Afghanistan,Tajikistan and elsewhere!!!😍[🇮🇷🇹🇯🇦🇫]😘
Zende bad kulle hamzabonon va hamwatanan sarosare dunyo [🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯]😻
We love Tajikistan and Afghanistan too!
Zinda Bashyd .
Salam wa ehtaram Az yek baloch ra bepazeered
سلام و احترام از یک بلوچ را بپذیرید
Dorood bar shoma ✌
I wish you the best. We have a common history. Iran Tajik Afghan😘
Persians
Ajam of Bahrain
Ajam of Iraq
Tajiks
Farsiwan
Tats
Pashtuns
Sarbani
Durrani
Abdali
Bettani
Ghiliji
Lodi
Karlani
Kurds
Zaza
Yazidis
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Baluchis
Gilakis
Mazanderanis
Lurs
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Laks
Pamiris
Sariqoli
Shugni
Tajiks of China
Wakhi
Talysh
Ossetian
Digor
Iron
Jasz
Yagnobi
Kumzari
Irani of India
Parsi
Azeris
Medes
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Uzbeks
Uyghurs
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Croats
Serbs
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Scythians
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Yaghnobis
Hazari
Persia=Iran I love it shalom chitori 🧿🧿🧿🧿💕💕💕
Persian, Spanish and Italian are the most beautiful languages ever.
Agreed! Brazilian Portuguese is very beautiful too.
I think all languages are beautiful. Except for Greek and Armenian ugh 🤮 🤢 🤮 👎🤢
TÜRKIYE 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 KARABOĞA 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷
TÜRKIYE 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷
@@mikedegrassetyson8807 turkish people aren't karaboga
@@mikedegrassetyson8807 To Persians, Turkish sounds like a Language full of curse words. 👎🇹🇷👎🇹🇷👎🇹🇷👎🇹🇷👎🇹🇷👎🇹🇷👎🇹🇷
You might like Ladino, especially Haketia
I think it is pronounced [E-RAAN] rather than [I-RAN] as I have heard from native speakers.
It has to pronunciations: eeraan or I-ran. Just like Iraq: eeraq and I-raq. Both are acceptable. George Bush always said I-ran!
native speakers can't know...persian has no short i anymore. Some european languages still have those short and long U,i,o etc. It seems that iran was with short i, but modern persian ha non of those distinctions anymore. Too bad because many iranians in europe can't get the hang of these letters lol
anyway when someone says"Iran" I always reply" Where to"?
The correct and Native Pronunciation is best described here: " Eerun" or "Eeraan" two syllables, one sounds lie the letter "E" and the second part sounds like the word"Run". I hope now you can stop saying you Ran somewhere whenever you want to tell me you know my back home country is the one beside the country GE Bush effed up.
In all fairness you have to consider if the speaker is using the version appropriate to the language he is speaking. He is using a common anglicized pronunciation and is not rolling the R. Similarly in english we say Italian rather than the native Italiano.
Dean Morris The pronunciation [I-Ran] has developed some derogatory tone to it. I think we should try to pronounce it as close/acceptable to native speakers. I remember an NBA match where the commentators were a bit rude to an Iranian NBA draft. They were emphasizing that he is from [III-RRRaaannn] and surely were being amused.
I want to learn Persian to gain deeper knowledge of Persian history and culture!
Hi Paul, how are you? I'm Iranian and I would be glad to help you learn Persian. This is my Skype ID= mohammadreza.khaani
The morphology/grammar is actually in the level of Modern Scandinavian languages; only the script looks difficult to a Westerner. For a written beginner's medium, I'd suggest Wheeler Thackston's "Introduction to Persian", or the Lonely Planet Farsi Phrasebook (the 2008 version at least).
Looking forward to talking to you
Paul Avery
same here!
tolonews
I really enjoyed every second of this. so true and useful
Great video. Thank you so much❤👏🏼
The origin of Dari language:
When Persian empire extended from Afghanistan to Egypt and beyond, Locals came to Persepolis (the capital of the empire with their gifts to present them to the King. Because the empire was vast and when the people gathered at the capital, they could not have conversation because each spoke a different language. So, the king asked to the scholars to design a language where people would learn it and be able to have a conversation with each other when they arrived at the capital.
The name Dari comes from Darbari. "Darbar" in Persian means Palace hence "Dar" with the "i" at the end it means "related to". "Dari" means the language belonging to Palace or Palace language.
Love this!
Thanks Bro im iranian and i didnt know this myself 🤣🤣🤣
Well said! I think it's totally true because dari language and Afghanistan placed between Iran and Tajikistan.
I am an Indian but have many Farsi friends I know a little bit .When they speak I love their the way they speak .
What a wonderful and educational video. Thank you
thank you man your informations are totally right and i can approve them as a persian. nice content hope to see more of these wish you luck
Wa Assalamu alaykum from Turkmenistan my Farsi brothers, lots of Farsi words are in Turkmen too.
and many turkish word in farsi. it is amazing when learning turkish language and read shared words.
@@afshinkarampur6356 can you give some examples because tahta renk mert namaz oruç ezan peygamber etc. From persian but i dont know any examples from turkish as a turkish i want to know it
@@kongodc8831 Some Turkish or Azerbaijani words in farsi (some words are argued that is persian or turkish): alaçık, açar, azuqe(from azığı) ,ojaq(ocak), Otaq, ordek, batlaq(bataklık), tütün,tup(top), çaq(çak), Çaleş(Çalış), xanom(xanim,hanim), saçma, Şişlək, qaçaq(kaçak), Qaraqurot, qorbaqe(kurbağa) ,quti(kutu), ....
and Farsi words in Turkish): aferin, jan(can),jam(cam), dust ,beraber, henuz , çerçeve, mübarizə, cenk(jang), Pazar, taze, sebze , çeyrek , dert, derya, endişe ,sarhoş, bahar, hava,kofte, turşu, çeşme .....
@@afshinkarampur6356 thanks i never knew that.
Afshin Karampur wow
من ایرانی هستم ممنونم از توضیح خوب شما👍👍👍🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷
You explained fully to undrestand other people with Persian
Thank you with your full information
Loved this video, thanks for it❤🤝🏻 خیلی زیبا و جالب گفتی😍
Salam az Tjk ba hame shoma , baradara Iran wa Afghanistan )
Salam baradar😍😍💜💜
@@kimiya.rahmati Aleykom Salam baradar . Zendeh bashi !
درود
درود بر ملت افغانستان و تاجیکستان و ایران . از ایران دستت را میبوسم❤❤❤
On thing that i want to add to this information is, in Afghanistan about 90% of people speak in Persian. Most of them are native speakers and some of them speak as second language. Moreover, there is other people who speak in other language like Pashto and Uzbeki. But they use Persian for relationship. They don't speak in Pashto or Uzbeki because one of them may know pashto or Uzbeki but both of them can speak in Persian. So Persian is the second language for them and communicate with Persian. In brief, Persian language is the academic language in Afghanistan and also most of political men and women communicate with people by Persian.
Well said mate!
Facts. I know pashtuns who cant speak pashto but speak farsi. Those stats he gave in the video of just 25-30% speaking farsi in afghanistan is inaccurate. Pretty much everyone knows farsi
Why are you so good?
Many thanks for your great video.
Good job and well done.
I'm an Afghan. Actually in Afghanistan lots of people speak Dari as their native language, maybe more than half. However our language is mostly referred to Arabic because most of the words come from Arabic and our grammers are nearly the same, but totally they are different languages. I love Dari, Persian or whatever you call it.🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯
Love from Afghanistan❤🇦🇫
As an Afghan, Salam but no only some of our words are Arabic not all
Our language called Farsi Dari
@@sahar1531at least 30 to 40 % is Arabic words
I’m Persian but unfortunately I didn’t know most of the information you gave about my language. So glad for your useful information ❤️
Really sorry. I'm Persian, and my parents taught me ow to speak our language.
*Reyhane Zangiabadi روزی، روزگاری مردم ایرانزمین از بافرهنگترین های مردم جهان بودند. ولی امروز ما دیگر اهل کتابخوانی و فرهنگ آموزی نیستیم و هویت خودمون و هویت پدران و مادرانمون را فراموش کرده ایم. امیدوارم که دوستاانی مانند شما بتونید تنها یک ساعت در هفته وقت برای کتابخوانی به زبان فارسی و در باره فرهنگ باشکوه گذشته ایران پیش از اسلام بگذارید
I'm learning Farsi these days beautiful language salam to everyone!
salam dadash
Dude,salam is arabic/Islamic.
we use that too,but in the Persian you should say "Doroud" actually.
@@iuhjuy1094 salam ham arbi va ham farsiye pas farghi nadare mesl dejavuu ke engilisi ha migan vali faransas zaban hame donya talfigh shode ma ham bayad bahash avaz shim
Salam/dorud to you, and I'm also learning Palestinian Arabic from the book Speaking Arabic: A Course in Conversational Eastern (Palestinian) Arabic these days, Do you wanna become language-learning partner with together?
@@whitheredflower6103 thanks for suggestion but really I'm sick of Arabic, because they teach us Arabic since middle school,almost every student hates Arabic.
And also I'm suck at it,so I'm not a good partner btw.
Hi I'm Iranian. Your description was very beautiful and complete. Thank you for your notices about the difference between our language, Persian, and Arabs' language, Arabic.👌
translating to persian :
سلام من ایرانی هستم. توضیحات شما بسیار زیبا و کامل بود. خیلی ممنون که درباره تفاوت بین زبان ما یعنی فارسی، و زبان
عرب ها یعنی عربی اطلاع رسانی کردید
Well Done Sir,
It was a really nice and well-written introduction. I wish you could talk a bit about the Avestan Alphabet during the middle era as well.
Best Wishes
I've just learned that our German Schachmatt sounds exactly like the original Persian word.
Sounds like Russian "shakhmati".
In Polish it sounds "szachmat"
actually its arabic and persian (shah=king of persian) (mat= the past verb of dead in arabic=died )
In Polish it sounds pretty the same like the orginal phrase. Do English speakers call Persian kings ''checks''?
Built of 2 persian words: Schach= shah=king and Maatt=shocked. which means together the shocked shah= game over:)
During the time of Zaratustra, people start learning to tell each other SEPAS before saying goodbye. It means not to forget to pass on the 3 things: Right thoughts, Right speech, Right action 😊
May all beings be happy
May be Happy😊
@red 1 in Sanskrit -sumata ,sukta and suvarshtra would be cognates
@red 1 velcom
Avestan,old Persian, Sanskrit are really the closest cousins, with Proto indo Aryan and Proto Iranian being brothers/sisters
Thank you so much , for showing our language I was always sad that we are always unknown and somehow most of the people hate us . Iam so thankful and respect ful 🌻
We don't hate the people, we hate the governments which don't represent the people :)
سلام!
Persian is a very beautiful language and I am currently learning it :)