Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] (listen)), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian, Dari Persian (officially named Dari since 1958) and Tajiki Persian (officially named Tajik since the Soviet era). It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2021 English
For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on the …
years ago was my first instructor in the Persian language, advised me on Shevchenko’s im- pressions …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 31 March 2021
The gov- of the First Nations’ moderate livelihood some of those demands and continued the ernment must ensure the conservation of the rights produced many proposals but no expansion of …
fellow at MLI and a former 1. supporting robust Persian-language broad- Indigenous workers. Industry collaborations …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 31 March 2021
The gov- of the First Nations’ moderate livelihood some of those demands and continued the ernment must ensure the conservation of the rights produced many proposals but no expansion of …
fellow at MLI and a former 1. supporting robust Persian-language broad- Indigenous workers. Industry collaborations …
RCIS: Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement · 19 February 2021 English
On the Iranian coast, and especially during the second half of the 19th century and thanks to the pearl trade, the city of Lengeh (now called Bandar Lengeh) was the …
Iranian culture via a series of policies such as Persian-language-only schooling. The question of nation-state … part of the policy of purification of the Persian language that was initiated under the Pahlavis and … their customs despite the predominance of the Persian language and the large-scale diffusion of the way of …
CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 15 June 2016 English
Summary of Study Characteristics Two SRs (one presented in a full AHRQ report4 as well as a journal article,39 and one published in a single journal article40), one RCT,41 and …
tongue forward and upward as required in the Persian language”41 cScore of 1 to 10 dMedian = 4 months eAs …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 30 September 2015 English
The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do …
17 2 Overcoming Gender: The Impact of the Persian Language on Iranian Women’s Confessional Literature … maintains that Arabic has negatively impacted the Persian language and provides a comprehensive overview of … TWO : Overcoming Gender The Impact of the Persian Language on Iranian Women’s Confessional Literature … esti- mated that “about 50 percent of the Persian language consists of Arabic words” (186). According …
Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto · 11 March 2013 English
In 2009, protests erupted across Iran in opposition to the victory of the incumbent conservative president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over his reformist challenger, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, in the presidential elections. Mousavi and …
the June election protests, with the BBC Persian language service blocked in January 2006). The trend …
CCR: Canadian Council for Refugees · 9 October 2012 English
The WHO is concerned with a “lack of awareness of the importance of mental health in [Ethiopia’s] overall xi development.” 15% of the country suffers from a mental illness. [...] …
system due to the overwhelming dominance of Persian language in Iranian culture. This is a place for improvement …
Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto · 7 September 2012 English
IRAN: The moon of Shawwal and the filtering of Grand Ayatollahs’ websites The official websites of two Shi’a Grand Ayatollahs were temporarily blocked [Farsi] and one other hacked after they …
including applications with Islamic themes, or in Persian language, that they need.” JORDAN: Supporting Internet …
UTP: University of Toronto Press · 2006 English
Since the 1950s when most African countries gained political independence, schooling has presented very difficult challenges. In the discussion of these challenges, however, the issue of diversity has received relatively …
superfi- cial sense of nationalism based on the Persian language and culture. The richly multicultural, multi-ethnic …
