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	Persian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to British colonization, Persian was also widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in the subcontinent throughout the Middle Ages and became the "official language" under the Mughal emperors.
		The Academy of Persian Language and Literature has argued in an official pronouncement [6] that the name "Persian" is more appropriate, as it has the longer tradition in the western languages and better expresses the role of the language as a mark of cultural and national continuity.
		Mazandarani, spoken in northern Iran mainly in the province of Mazandaran.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persian_language (2248 words)

	Iran - MSN Encarta
		The population of Iran was estimated at 68,688,433 in 2006.
		Northern and western Iran are more densely populated than the arid eastern half of the country, where population density in the extensive desert regions is only 1 percent of the national average.
		Iran’s 1979 constitution assigns to the Shia clergy important political leadership roles in the government.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567300_3/Iran.html (1210 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		IRAN, officially Islamic Republic of Iran, republic, SW Asia, bordered on the N by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea; on the E by Afghanistan and Pakistan; on the S by the Gulf of Oman, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf; and on the W by Iraq and Turkey.
		Iran is divided climatically into three main regions: the extremely hot coast along the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; the temperate but arid central highland; and the tableland of the intensely cold Elburz Mts.
		The increase of foreign influence in Iran and the weakness and corruption of the country’s rulers led, early in the 20th century, to the development of a nationalist movement that demanded the establishment of a constitutional government.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/iran.html (6755 words)

	baloch and balochistan sistan and balouchestan of iran all about baloch and balochistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This paper is concerned with the Balochi language in Iran presenting the issues from two perspectives: The first is a descriptive history of this language, its relation to its family languages, its dialects, its development as for its orthography and standardization, and demographical and geographical factors.
		So if a language is used at home, at work, in education, in business, in administration, in religion, in entertainment and in the mass media, then that language has a usage in many social domains that shows that it will continue to thrive as a language.
		In the history of the world, languages have always come and gone, but in the present time there are some factors which have never existed previously, and which threaten many of the world’s languages in a way they have never been threatened before.
	www.baloch2000.org /culture/language/azim2.htm (3164 words)

	Farsi, the most widely spoken Persian Language, a Farsi Dictionary, Farsi English Dictionary, The spoken language in ...
		It is the language of Iran (formerly Persia) and is also widely spoken in Afghanistan and, in an archaic form, in Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountain region.
		Avestan, probably spoken in the northeast of ancient Persia, is the language of the Avesta, the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism.
		Parthian was the language of the Arsacid or Parthian Empire (circa 250 BC-AD 226).
	www.farsinet.com /farsi (1134 words)

	Ethnologue: Iran
		ASSYRIAN NEO-ARAMAIC [AII] 10,000 to 20,000 in Iran (1994); 8,000 in Georgia (1994); 10,000 in Russia (1993); 30,000 in Iraq (1994); 30,000 in Syria (1995); 200,000 in all countries.
		(BALUCHI, BALOCI, BALUCI) [BGN] 451,000 in Iran, 1% of the population (1986); 200,000 in Afghanistan; 1,000,000 in Pakistan (1995); 18,633 in Turkmenistan (1979); 4,842 in Tajikistan; 1,670,000 in all countries.
		Language varieties in Suleimaniya, Iraq and Qazwin, Iran may be inherently intelligible with it.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Iran.html (1827 words)

	ROOTS AND BRANCHES OF FARSI LANGUAGE - Persian Journal Culture Archaeological History Art Archaeology cutlural history ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Avesta was the language of the East and North Eastern Iran.
		Aasee Language is a Caucasian language and is connected to the Sogdian and Karazmian language.
		Pashtu is the language of Eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
	www.iranian.ws /cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/4/7078 (906 words)

	Islam and poetry in Iran
		The official language of Iran during the Sasanian dynasty, and in the Zoroastrian religious establishment, was Pahlavi-Parsi.
		Language became a sanctuary where the past history of Iran was celebrated so as to maintain national identity.
		For years it was argued in Iran that it is to value and respect the pen that God swears by it.
	www.iranchamber.com /literature/articles/islam_poetry_iran1.php (1835 words)

	The Center for Persian Studies ::
		This region is the cradle of the Persian language and of the Persian empires of old.
		Persian is the official language of Iran and it is spoken by most of the population of over 67 million people even though it is the native language of only just over half of them.
		The new regime sought to re-emphasize the Islamic identity of Iran at the expense of its nativist identity.
	www.languages.umd.edu /persian/persianlanguage1.php (2011 words)

	Iran - The Persian Language
		It is the language of government and public instruction and is the mother tongue of half of the population.
		It was the official language of the Sassanid Empire and of the Zoroastrian priesthood.
		Modern Persian is a continually evolving language that began to develop about A.D. Following the Arab conquest of the Sassanid Empire in the seventh century and the gradual conversion of the population to Islam, Arabic became the official, literary, and written language, but Persian remained the language of court records.
	countrystudies.us /iran/37.htm (878 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Features: Language, Persian or Farsi
		It was the official language of countries such as India for many centuries during which time numerous annals, chronicles, and court volumes of poetry were compiled outside Iran.
		Today, Persian is not only the name of the official language in Iran but also of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, and different dialects of this language are spoken in many regions of south and central Asia.
		I believe that Persian is the true and proper name of this language in foreign tongues and international communities and changing it does not benefit the representation of Iranian culture.
	www.iranian.com /Features/Dec97/Persian (1032 words)

	Dari Language Project :: About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This division of the language, based on the division of its speakers into their two main cities of residence, conceals the complexity of the actual dialectical situation.
		The Dari Language Project’s first goal is to carry out a survey of Dari’s dialects to assess the spheres of their usage, the number and age of their speakers, and derivatively the language’s current and projected vitality.
		The Dari Language Project holds the study of these intra-linguistic differences to be equally important to the theoretical study of the language.
	www.darilanguageproject.org /about.htm (937 words)

	Related Articles on Kurdish Language
		Although this may be considered the beginning of an official language policy reflecting the position of Persian nationalists it was not until the coming to power of the Pahlavi dynasty that the central government was in a position to implement the constitutional stipulation effectively.
		When census figures on the languages of Iran were released for the first time in 1960, the Tehran daily Kayhan carried interviews with three philologists one of whom, S. Kiya, claimed that there was only one language in Iran (February 7, 1960).
		It also implies that the Kurds of Iran cannot opt for the unification of the Kurdish alphabet on the basis of the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets which are currently used by Kurds in other countries.
	www.kurdishacademy.org /english/articles/articles-002.html (2010 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iran - Semitic Language Groups in Iran \| Iranian Information Resource
		As a Semitic language, Arabic is related to Hebrew, Syriac, and Ethiopic.
		When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and occupied much of Khuzestan for nearly two years, however, an anticipated uprising of the Arab population did not occur, and most of the local Arabs fled the area along with the non-Arab population.
		Language and religion provide a strong cohesive force and give the Assyrians a sense of identity with their coreligionists in Iraq, in other parts of the Middle East, and also in the United States.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iran/iran51.html (921 words)

	Editor: Myself \| Hossein Derakhshan's weblog (English)
		Before Iran left for Germany for the World Cup, Ahmadinejad showed up at one of the exercise sessions, with the national jersey and football boots, and kicked a ball with the national team players.
		Some of the leftists groups had boycotted the London meeting and even Nasser Zarafshan, a leftist lawyer who was imprisoned in Iran and was a founding members of the Referendum movement, protested in a letter that they had mentioned his name for the London meeting's invitation without his consent.
		After all, he's never lived outside Iran, doesn't speak a word of English or French or any other language, and is quite unaware of the larger picture in which his activities gain meaning.
	www.hoder.com /weblog (5146 words)

	IL&S: New Iranian Languages & Scripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the year 875 AD Dari Persian became the official language of the independent Safarid dynasty.
		The type of alphabets used to inscribe the new Iranian languages depends on the geographical and political situation in which these languages existed.
		The languages in Iran and Afghanistan are written in the modified Arabic script.
	iranianlanguages.com /newiranian/index.htm (170 words)

	Iranian Language Family
		Middle Persian was initially the language of the province of Pars (Persia), and a development of the Old Persian of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions or one of its close dialects.
		It was also taken as the language of artistic expression and science by the population of Central Asia and Muslim inhabitants of China, as well as the aristocratic classes of Ottoman Turkey.
		and Sivandi in Iran, Ossetic in Caucasia, Yaghnobi in Tajikistan, and Kumzari in Oman.
	www.iranologie.com /history/ilf.html (2828 words)

	IRAN YELLOW PAGES - Iranian infomation at your fingertip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The most substantial minority group in Iran is the Azerbaijanis.Aryan peoples originate from the Indo-European ethnic and linguistic group.
		Their language was closely related to the ancient Indian language, Sanskrit, which was derived from the Indo-European family of languages.
		The official language of Iran today, Persian (also known as Farsi), is also a derivative of the Indo-European linguistic family.
	www.iranyellowpages.net /en/about_iran/Tourism/Other/ethnology.shtm (325 words)

	Newsletter of the Council for the Dissemination of Persian Language and Literature
		During the inauguration of the third Persian language teaching session at the Cultural Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kazakhstan, the Iranian Ambassador to Almati stated that the Persian language is the language of the civilization and culture of central Asia.
		During a ceremony in which the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran participated, Agha Jan Abi Uf, the head of the University, said that the incentive for this action is the ample interest of the people of Azarbaijan Republic, especially the sportsmen, in the Persian language.
		The nineteenth convention of professors of Persian language teaching of the Indian subcontinent, held in Ahmadabad, the center of the Gujarat state, started with a message from the Prime Minister of this country.
	www.iran-export.com /exporter/company/ershad/index.htm (800 words)

	Iran Daily - Front Page - 08/30/06
		Asked about Iran’s response to the package of incentives as offered by the 5+1 group (the five veto powers plus Germany), he said, “We think global affairs can be handled through dialogue.
		The UN Security Council has given Iran until Thursday to suspend uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities--which Tehran says is part of a civilian nuclear program--or face the threat of sanctions.
		An impasse is looming as Iran insists that it has no intention of abandoning such work--though it says it is ready to hold “serious talks“.
	www.iran-daily.com (2240 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Azeris To Learn Their Language In Iran
		As long as my dear Azeri compatriots respect the Iran's territorial dignity and independence I am glad to see them free to practice their own culture, tradition freely and allowed to be educated in their own language.
		The repressive Islamic regime of Iran is approaching its certain death and this is the duty of all Iranians regardless of their ethnic backgrounds to boycott any so-called elections ain Iran in order to show the world the unpopularity of this brutal regime.
		The repressive Islamic regime of Iran is approaching its certain death and this is the duty of all Iranians regardless of their ethnic backgrounds to boycott any so-called elections in Iran in order to show the world the unpopularity of this brutal regime.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=7657 (843 words)

	Iran : Government, Politics, Law : Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
		English language text of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		Iran has not had an embassy to the United States since the revolution of 1979.
		Extensive English language site of the expatriate WCP which provides news and reports of its activities on and in Iran and on international topics which affect it.
	www.loc.gov /rr/international/amed/iran/resources/iran-government.html (1256 words)

	THE IRANIAN:Opinion, language, Persian, Farsi, scholars
		Saying Farsi instead of Persian robs the language and the culture of all the sense of splendor the name Persian has taken on in western languages through two and a half millennia of war, trade, religious and cultural influence, and other forms of confrontation or subtle interaction.
		Great civilizations earn the right to have corrupted forms of their names, their adjectives, and their place names in other languages through long periods of contact and influence, and the conceptual and connotational range of the recipient languages is considerably enriched by the adoption of the corrupted forms.
		If we compare the position of this hypothetical tribe in all the languages to which the tribe is new with that of, say, of the Dutch in English, for whose race and whose country a thesaurus is needed to record the English variants, the point becomes clear.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/June98/Language (3644 words)

	Persian language
		Middle Persian was a contemporary of Parthian, and during the Arsacid period, Persian was strongly influenced by Parthian.
		Middle Persian was, just like Old Persian, spoken in southwestern Iran, Parthian was spoken in the north, while a group of languages (Khwarezmian, Sogdian and Saka) were spoken in southeast.
		Modern Persian, the language of Iran today, was developed as early as in the 9th century.
	i-cias.com /e.o/persian_l.htm (387 words)

	"Farsi or Persian?" - Persian Journal Culture Archaeological History Art Archaeology cutlural history news & ...
		Meanwhile the official institution "Farhangestan" (the Academy of Persian language and literature, in Tehran) in an announcement has rejected the use of the word 'Farsi' instead of 'Persian' in English.
		The Language of the nation of Iran [Persia] in English is called "Persian" [or in other European languages: Persane, Persisch, Persa, Persiska, etc.] and is known worldwide as PERSIAN.
		In their 34th meeting on 7th of December 1992, the Persian Academy unanimously passed the resolution that this language must be called PERSIAN and the reasons given were:
	www.iranian.ws /cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/1/641 (631 words)

	Iran Heritage
		It has only been recently that the word "Farsi" has been tried to be brought into play instead of the term Persian in English.
		The Academy of the Persian Language and Literature (Farhangestan) in Tehran has specifically stated the English name of the official and spoken Language of Iran as Persian.
		Languages website http://iranianlanguages.com/ which, has plenty of information about the Persian Language.
	www.iran-heritage.org /takeaction/story1.htm (336 words)

	Iran Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The conference was sponsored by Research Studies Center of Iran and Pakistan and Association of Persian Literature of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
		About 30 to 35 scholars of Persian language from Iran will take part in the conference and Iranian cultural attach will invite non-Iranian academics of Persian language to the event.
		Kashkouli said that the book was written in a language which is difficult for the new generation to understand.
	www.iran-daily.com /1384/2283/html/art.htm (1426 words)

	:::IRAN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE:::
		The Iran Language Institute was founded in 1979.
		According to its constitution the ILI has been assigned with the national mission of developing foreign language learning.
		Classes are taught by around 1,000 carefully trained and selected instructors, with degrees in Farsi, English, French, German and Arabic.
	www.ili.ir /e.prof.htm (90 words)

	Iran Focus-Iran gets tough on foreign-language advertising - Iran (General) - News
		TEHRAN - Iranian traders were given a stern warning Wednesday to stop using only foreign languages in advertising, company logos or shop signs, an official in the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance said.
		"There is a law dating back to 1996 that aims to preserve the Farsi language, just like in other countries who want to preserve their languages," the head of the advertising bureau of the ministry, Iraj Gharehdaghi, said.
		He added that the ministry was also seeking the compulsory Farsi-language labelling of imported goods.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=446 (219 words)

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