Similarities Between Persian and Croatian

In this video, we compare some of the similarities between Persian and Croatian, two Indo-European languages, with one, Croatian, being classified as South Slavic, while Persian is classified as a Western Iranian language. Contact us on Instagram if you have any questions or feedback:
Shahrzad (@shahrzad.pe): / shahrzad.pe
Bahador (@BahadorAlast): / bahadoralast
The Persian language (Farsi) has had a huge impact on other languages and cultures, mainly in the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. Classified as one of the Western Iranian languages, Persian holds official status is Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Persian has strongly influenced numerous Turkic languages, as well as well as Armenian, Georgian, and many languages in the Indian subcontinent. Many Persian words subsequently entered the Balkans when the region was occupied by the Ottoman Empire after these words had entered Ottoman Turkish. Persian has a long history of literature and it was notable for being the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing. The Persian language has also influenced the Arabic language, although the impact of Arabic on Persian has been higher. But the influence of Persian in the Muslim world has been strong since the early days of Islam. It was even established as a court tradition instead of Arabic under many ruling Muslim dynasties. Croatian is a South Slavic language and the official language of Croatia, and also among the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a minority language in Serbia, and neighboring countries. Throughout history, many Persian originating words have entered the languages of the Balkans.
Under the Ottoman Empire, most people spoke Turkish in Anatolia, while Persian was spoken by the educated, and Arabic was used for religious purposes. Ottoman Turkish, as the official language of the Empire, was mixture of both Arabic and Persian grammar and vocabulary. In the Balkans, Slavic, Greek and Albanian speakers were the majority, but there were substantial minorities of Turks, who spoke Ottoman Turkish. Arabic and Persian words in Ottoman Turkish amounted for up to 88% of its vocabulary. Many of these words entered the different languages of the Balkans. The Arabic words that entered Ottoman Turkish were not the result of a direct exposure of Ottoman Turkish to Arabic, but the adaptation of those words by Persian, which then entered Turkish. This was evidenced by the Persian phonological mutation of the words of Arabic origin. Ottoman Turkish shares the Persian character of its Arabic borrowings with other Turkic languages that had even less interaction with Arabic. Much of the Balkans was under Ottoman rule for several centuries which led to many Persian and Arabic words, which were adopted by Ottoman Turkish, to enter the vocabularies.

[@BahadorAlast]

I just want to point out that I made mistake regarding the root of the word "dugme". It is derived from Ottoman Turkish and ultimately comes from Proto-Turkic. For any suggestions or feedback, please contact us on Instagram: instagram.com/BahadorAlast

[@AmirYazdanian]

Bahador Alast Good job and don't drink too much alcohol 🤣🤣🤣

[@aldinacaus2285]

Bahador Alast bure, bacva isto

[@bojana9332]

Bahador Alast Do you speak/understand any Slavic language, because I see you helping with translating? ☺

[@mishagelenava2962]

Bojana dencic, he prepares for the show.

[@zagrepcanin82]

Thank you for this bro!i love it!I am one of the Croatians knowing the history and I hope one day to go to the land where we originate from!

[@tannazmehrdadi8774]

This is great! My native language and my favourite guy on your shows Marko!! We Iranians LOVE Croatia!! One of the most beautiful countries on earth!!!

[@zagrepcanin82]

Tannaz Mehrdadi Hvala! (Thank you)... Did you know that our name means rich in water? From ancient times till today we are ruch in it indeed! With the highest amount per capita in EU. So do come... Summer is near...

[@stara_garda_3]

Cekaj malo, mislio sam da rec ''Hrvatska'' potice od Karpata. Nesto kao Karpati>Kroati>Hrvati

[@Saosyant]

one of the most accepted theories attributes the origin of Hrvatska to an Iranic people, Sarmatians

[@greggor07]

Rik P It's not one of the most accepted to be honest. It's about as accepted as the Gothic theory...meaning It's pseudo-scientific woo from the 90s, when the right wing government was pushing all kinds of nonsense just to try and "prove" we're not Slavs. And all with the purpose of distancing us from the Serbs as much as possible. Maybe we are from Iran, but in that case, so are all the other Slavs, and in fact could be all Indoeuropeans. Nothing special about our small tribe.

[@markoe1652]

Gøran Greggor The theiry is only about the name, not ethnicity. Croats are Slavic, but the name is of unknown origin, some say Iranic.

[@elamiri858]

I looove these Persian vs. Slavic languages videos. Keep them coming!

[@elmusta5068]

That's so cool one is Croatian and the other is Iranian and I'm Iraqi and I understood everything they said 😅😅 that's really cool.

[@matijajelinic9575]

It’s pretty too

[@ivepesusic8792]

but how tho ???XDD

[@elmusta5068]

@@ivepesusic8792 languages are intelligible

[@jasminjaz6920]

Hahahaahhahaahha.. Kooolnessss

[@zorankalina6100]

Yes...nice, cool.....and somehove optimistic, on a wey like....we are all the same...but history devide all

[@Eli_Ahmed_in_Germany]

Greetings from Croatia 🇭🇷🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌺🌺🌺🌸🌺🌺🌺🌸I love your channel it’s very interesting and greetings for Persia

[@Humbulla93]

wahnsinn dann sprichst beide sprachen wie ich kroatisch und deutsch, al sam se rodio u njemackoj pa mi je lakse pisat po njemackom

[@Eli_Ahmed_in_Germany]

@@Humbulla93 super 👍🏻, I razumijem 60 posto albanski a sada se učim arapski jezik , posto je moj muž iz Egipta , Ak imaš vremena pa me posjeti

[@akn5354]

I'm Afghan-Croatian-Slovak so this was really interesting!

[@gillione7164]

im serbo slovak

[@thelifeoftravel640]

Im afghan croatian

[@froglifes6829]

@@thelifeoftravel640 your mom afghan???

[@skin4700]

Im croatian, afganistan is og hrvat land

[@prole1406]

I love Iran,greetings from Croatia. :)

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!! We love Croatia as well :)

[@hosseinmoeini1428]

Hi, love from Iran too. Do you know Croatians are originally from Iran? by a simple search you can realize this fact? Kharavat is a place in North East of IRAN. .........

[@hosseinmoeini1428]

@Siniša Vuco it's oblivious that every nation have been under influence of neighbors. such as Iranians which mixed with other nations . خراوات is a Persian word which pronounces like Croat. Croats are originally from north east of Iran which nowadays named Khorasan. I was there about 5 years ago and I saw a city which it's name is Kharve. when I read a text on the net about origin of Croatians I really surprised with this resemblance. If you pay attention to the type of clothes and the face of Croats you can realize my view.

[@matijajelinic9575]

ilijatilis Boc brat!

[@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621]

Croats are Iranic people ❤

[@minaal-lami2855]

Amazing video!! Love both Iran and Croatia! Amazing people, beautiful countries! Greetings from Iraq!!❤❤

[@LutherusPandragon]

Thank you and we love Iraq

[@minaal-lami2855]

Velimir BaxaThank you ❤

[@darknesslight9630]

Love you from iran

[@minaal-lami2855]

MelonY You can visit. There are more terrorist attacks in Europe than in Iran, and where I'm from in Iraq hasn't had a terrorist attack for the longest time.

[@minaal-lami2855]

darkness light ❤❤❤

[@mislavcovic2788]

Awesome! Greetings from Croatia! Love your channel

[@mislavcovic2788]

Also the guy has the same phone as I do 😃😃

[@tannazmehrdadi8774]

We Iranians love Croatia!!!!!!! Beautiful people, beautiful country, wonderful nation!!!

[@ToiYeuYAHWEH]

I am a Vietnamese lover of history and cultures. I have respect and love for both Iran and Hrvaska. One of my Czech friends told me that Czech History books claim that the Czech people came from the Zagros Mountains of Iran. I guess most if not all Slavs came from Iran?

[@kategoried7501]

@@ToiYeuYAHWEH i also think that all slavs came from persia(iran)

[@ToiYeuYAHWEH]

@@kategoried7501 Are you an Iranian/Persian brother? I very much ADMIRE AND RESPECT the ancient Persian people. We need to get rid of stupid evil islam, though. -- With love from an anti-communist Vietnamese patriot

[@AriaPersia]

I KNEW there was a reason why I loved Croatia beside its football :D

[@MixolydianMode]

Those videos are interesting. Keep em coming! Suggestions: German - Danish, Norwegian or Swedish Hungarian - Finnish Bulgarian - Serbian or Croatian

[@AmirTavassoly]

Awesome video Bahador jan! 😊

[@BahadorAlast]

❤❤❤

[@gripped6184]

I'm a 4th generation American with my family coming from the Croatian area. I recently was reached out to on Facebook by distant relatives from Croatia. My last name Americanized is "Grudenich" in Croatia it's "Grudenic` ". Can't wait to visit out there some day!

[@dillon5866]

I love this channel so much!!! I'm from the US so the only languages I'm really exposed to is English and occasionally Spanish. It's so interesting to learn the differences and similarities between these language that I didn't know were related.

[@Lipanj92]

Croatian and Persian are NOT related.

[@Yunusoooo]

Great video! It would've been interesting to see a bit more of a comparison between words of common Indo-European origin - to see how much the two languages are alike. Keep up the good work :)

[@maree-ya]

I'm pretty sure my father's family comes from Iran :) Love those people

[@parysatissh6978]

Love back 👉❤👈

[@arnelabih1845]

Marija Šakić haha I agree I will tell you something I went to Persian party all their decorating and music reminded me of my grandma including their bread the way they make it. I love Iranian people they are very welcoming and FRIENDLY.😊

[@TheDiadara1]

mine too,i found out the other day that croatian family kačić were fomerly iranians under the name khadziki

[@cukkuruck3703]

@@TheDiadara1 interesting. I didnt know that. Im from croatia. And i often hear that we have connection with persians.

[@somebody1241]

@@cukkuruck3703 in Ottoman time Turkish and Persian words come to your language bcs Turkish language have lots of Persian words

[@thinkingloudout6916]

This is really cool how similar languages are in some words , some words are even said in arabic (iraqi dialect especially). Much love for this channel.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!! Much love:)

[@kurd_baloch__pkk6288]

kurdistan😍balochistan😍hindistan😍Afganistan😍tajikistan😍krwatiya😍iran😍pakistan😍brazar😍1QAWM👹👹

[@timur9186]

Wanna see more guys like this Croatian in your videos! He’s full of energy, curiosity and life 👍🏻

[@sleros8646]

As a Turk I knew I would know all of the words even before I watched the video. We have too many Persian words in our language and with the Ottoman Empire all those words also got into Balkan languages, so the Ottoman Empire and Turkish were like bridges between Persian language and the Balkans. I can see similar stuff in other videos like Persian vs Greek, Persian vs Serbian etc.

[@ctflex4699]

Turkey was once part of ancient Persia lol

[@fahrigevur6542]

@@ctflex4699 funny :) iran population 48% turks.Safavi is shia Turks :)

[@ctflex4699]

@@fahrigevur6542 Lool Modern day Turkey was part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire 2600 years ago buddy. Read some history please. Try to educate yourself a little bit : - )

[@nurettinsarul]

@@ctflex4699 Persia was menaged by Turks during 1000 years. Thanks to Azerbaijani Turks in order to do that.

[@hmspn366]

@@nurettinsarul i think savafid dynasty traced its roots to safi ad-din ardabili which was a kurdish tariqa/sufi leader. I think they are a turkified kurdish family so they are not really turkic people

[@adrianobanak2824]

So many similar words! Great channel, keep the good work!

[@Farsaharad]

So good as always!

[@VonEssek]

As a Croat, I have to say this is absolutely fascinating, from 'nar' in our word for orange - 'naranča', to dugme and everything else. Beautiful!

[@modesty71]

Love your videos! Greetings from Croatia 😀

[@MarinaandAfshinTravel]

Great job again Bahador, is awesome i enjoy watching your videos always :) keep doing it

[@ARS-vs6kx]

Salam Bahador Jan, another great video....best wishes from Tehran

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you Amir Reza jan! I appreciate it a lot my friend! All the best from Toronto :)

[@frequency_e34]

I am simply amazed how similar this is....new sub,great stuff

[@nikolaym.3774]

Persians are good and intelligent people, i have some friends from Iran

[@kurd_baloch__pkk6288]

kurdistan😍balochistan😍hindistan😍Afganistan😍tajikistan😍krwatiya😍iran😍pakistan😍brazar😍1QAWM👹👹

[@maayanhaza6178]

I love it! My grandmother was from Iran. We have many Persian Jews here and I'm trying to learn Persian. I've grasped the basics :) Greetings from Israel!

[@hosseinsadeghi2468]

Lots of love from iran 💙💚

[@Lexi_zad]

As a Hungarian, this was so interesting to see how many words I share with them, padlizsán for eggplant, zsiger for liver(which is not used anymore) and a lot of others. WOW!

[@Brutus0012]

Because Red Huns came from Easter part of Iran and Asia minor..

[@vladimirdula]

@@Brutus0012 Not at all, but because Hungarians loan those words (patlidžan=>padlizsán, džigerica=>zsiger) from the South Slavic languages!

[@jasminjaz6920]

A Greaaaatttt job You do Buddyyyyy by Bringing up people frm Different backgrounds... its like You are a Bridge connectng 2 different nations together.. Love all your videos.. Nd Love These 2 Mates aswell❤

[@HamzaFarooqui21]

very educational videos, thanks for them!

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you for watching!

[@mislavcovic2788]

Regarding the dugme,in Dalmatia we say botun(also button),and many words in Dalmatia are derived from Italian

[@67claudius]

Actually I believe they derive from the Venetian dialect. Botón in Venetian dialect.

[@mislavcovic2788]

67claudius exactly

[@bz8100]

Mislav Čović istrian as well so it would be nice se Croatian compared to Italian

[@bornatona3954]

mi hrvati govorimo inazivamo tu stvar GUMB

[@pcelicamaja5779]

Borna Tona a pravi si gumb

[@besosalah7730]

I am very impressed that more than 2 for the word which you mentioned in this video are close to the Arabic words either the Persian word and the Croatian word .. this world is very small !

[@DBvideo-s]

Croatia was partly affected by the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Ages around 150g Some words in Croatian remain from that time.

[@boratbicigetto1149]

Grrrreat ! and etymological connections make it all more intriguing !

[@Ahmedqamislo]

I’m kurdish and i uderstood most of what the croation said

[@koljarzg]

Confess! You probably have Croatian girlfriend! :)

[@user-cg4uz5sp7d]

Because the croation form of all the words are totally same with turkish.

[@tonce2109]

@@user-cg4uz5sp7d thats not true,we hate turkey

[@user-cg4uz5sp7d]

@@tonce2109 hate it or love. this words are totally same with turkish. Even, There isnt any different letter for this words. I just say this for my kurdish friend. Keep calm.

[@user-cg4uz5sp7d]

@Kn33g3r Ssen I can understand. Every countries occupied the others and influenced each other. Past is past. ✌

[@margrg21]

woow. awesome video. amazing. so many similar words. in bosnia liver is sometimes called dzigara which is almost the same pronunciation as in persian that he said on 13 min and 58 sec.

[@zphtx4923]

Incredible Video!! 💯 💯

[@craigtucker777]

Iranian and croats BROTHERS FOREVER

[@craigtucker777]

The premise is that the Croats are originally non-Slavic people with an Iranian heritage, who later adopted the Slavic language. The proponents of this view can be called Pre-Slavists. ... A major part of this thesis is based on the similarity of ancient Indo-Iranian names with the modern Croatian term for Croats “Hrvati”.

[@Mokh7777]

Croatians are known to be descendants of the great Iranian Sarmats. The name croat comes from the Iranian kravat. They were later slavitized, but their Iranian/Aryan ancestry makes them an ancient people and also blood brothers of Iranians.

[@garvielloken2887]

nope....lol..check DNA tests...

[@garvielloken2887]

Mišetić you are prob Herzegovian so basically you are 100% Iranian while Croats are not...P.S. learn what haplotype is...

[@zagrepcanin82]

Eu7/I2 haplogroup is present in 90% of Europe my brother!why? because we are first europeans.some of us moved to India and Persia only to return home 1500y ago....we did not originated from Persia!

[@reval1891]

Thank you bahador

[@akumayoxiruma]

I am here for Marko.

[@user-sg9uy1qw3y]

bahdor u r the best intrducer good work 😍😍😍

[@kevin-8375]

Would be more interesting if you use more words which are related because of indo-european Connection of persian and croatian and not only words which are similar because of the ottoman empire. For example the number "206" is very similar in both languages. Greetings from Germany and thanks for your videos!

[@ehsanforghani8477]

@Kevin Hey man, what's suggestion for someone who wants to learn German from scratch?

[@brockbrock8071]

Greetings from Turkey. You have no idea how much i appreciate you for doing this cultural game

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you so much! I am so happy to hear you enjoy them :)

[@brockbrock8071]

Turks and Persian had a civilian more than things in common. Unfourtunatly, most of the Turks and Persians don't know that.

[@kurd_baloch__pkk6288]

kurdistan😍balochistan😍hindistan😍Afganistan😍tajikistan😍krwatiya😍iran😍pakistan😍brazar😍1QAWM👹👹

[@iqrawaheed7252]

Learned a lot in the video. Please do another part 2 with Urdu!!!!

[@basselshalan4436]

congratulations for the microphone bro the sound is much better now keep it up 😊😄

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you! :) We're constantly trying to improve our work.

[@MBubl-e]

make a Ukrainian and Croatian Video pls

[@markov2922]

Persian language is so beautiful . Greetings from Croatia.

[@elleamo92]

thank you for the video! can you also do croatian vs romanian?

[@_im108]

as i always say... Cool Video

[@ackeskin]

i like this channel and ı recognise almost every words and notice that theese words transfered european languages by turks. BTW ı want to add that cep and düğme is same in hungarian too. Düğme sounds quite turkish to me , düğüm means knot .ı searched the words in etimology dictionary ,it shows düğme is Turkish , cep is Arabic . Cheers

[@stefanijaharris7566]

A great format, interesting to watch. Most of the common words are relatively late borrowings by Croatian speakers from Persian, through Turks who used to occupy the next door Bosnia. However it would be interesting to find out how much vocabulary Croatian and Iranian have in common that goes back to their common Proto-Indoeuropean origin. They say that the Early Persian was very similar to Sanskrit. Croatian shares some grammatical features and vocabulary with Sanskrit. Therefore it must have some similarities to the Early Persian. In addition, Croats although classified as Slavs, at least in part have Sarmatians, an Eastern Iranian people, as their ancestors. It is possible that the Croatian language was formed as a result of melding of Slavic and Eastern Iranian linguistic influences.

[@Ashley-po3zm]

I don't speak either language, but I find these videos entertaining.

[@billsmart2726]

The Coratian dude looks so bad ass! 😄😄😄

[@lifeisbeautiful1323]

Bill Smart...looks like they are ...:(

[@mehrankamalvand6194]

He looks like Chris Helms

[@bandolero6339]

You should do this with Kurdish, because its said that Croatians and Kurds are related to each other and are of Median origin

[@dancemonkey118]

Kurdish has a very Persian words. that's why Croatian and Kurdish look similiar.

[@ANICETVS]

bullshit

[@hivron8640]

Kurdish and Persian have common words, but that doesn't mean that all of these words are definitely of Persian or Kurdish origin, but because our race is the same, that's why there are words in common between the two languages.

[@MrZZooh]

This video's captions clearly show that the common words came mostly from a third language(Arabic or Turkish), and I don't know how that can establish a direct connection between the two! Good video anyways.

[@deniz-qm1tu]

I like your coffee and tea cups! Those are symbols of your videos for me.

[@postremusmammuthus3735]

You should have done words of indoeuropean origin. Words for body parts (like nose), or domestic animals (like cow), etc. Many people don't realise that Persian is indoeuropean language and share some similarties with Slavic languages.

[@pedrobelmont8496]

Hello Bahador how are you doing??? Your T Shirt is pretty nice☺

[@BahadorAlast]

I'm doing great my friend. How are you? Thank you btw :) ... We will be having a Portuguese video in the coming weeks :)

[@hamzahhh490]

Happy ramadan bahador, i hope you have a blessed month with your family

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you Hamzah. Happy Ramadan to you too. Wishing you and your family all the best!

[@worldly8888]

Bahador is an atheist, but I guess he's too nice to respond and say that

[@ebuuuu2833]

Kalıp,Düğme(dökme),kafes(kavız),badem(badam),dut(dud),Nişan(neşan) cep(jeeb),nar(anar),pamuk,barut. This words are smillar with Turkish. But dude Dügme is a Turkish word , Nişan and Nar is Persian word and pamuk is ancient Greek. Others Arabic loanwords :) But Arabic loanwords came from Persian language to Turkish.(%95 of Arabic loanword in Turkish with Persian literature/Poem culture)

[@srbendatribali7332]

Ebuzer .Yılmaz Yes but the Turks Take the words from persia the SELDJUKS was First time in persia than After go to Anatolia . The First name of the Turks was SELDJUKS NOT TURKS and the leader was ALP ASLAN. And he Rule ISFAHAN IN PERSIA (IRAN)

[@ebuuuu2833]

Seldjuks? This is a family name. Not nation. We must say ottoman for ourself then now :) Alp Arslan is third leader of Seljuk empire. Our nation's real name not Turk or Seljuk or Ottoman. Only Oghuz! Turk(Törük) to a family name. Or Turk(Turık) is means nomad.

[@srbendatribali7332]

Ebuzer .Yılmaz is not a Familie is a TURK TRIBE the Leader is ALP ASLAN. the Selďjuks after Iran go to Anatolia And win in Manzikert the Rome solgers. And stay in Anatolia. Osman Come man years later.

[@ebuuuu2833]

Hey dude ı am Turkish ı know my own history.

[@bornatona3954]

croatians spoke GUMB not dugme it is wrong ....or Im not KROAT

[@mostafadana1640]

The Croatian guy is so dominant!

[@koljarzg]

We are bred that way. For war. Unfortunately.... :)

[@Lipanj92]

@@koljarzg Zašto "unfortunately" ? 😁 Bilo ratova ili ne, ovakvi nam muškarci uvijek trebaju: pametni i snažni. Ne trebaju nam slabići i šmoklje.

[@AC-qo8oq]

I noticed that too. Interesting

[@n057828]

We love to learn I guess I see him like most Croats just being smart and caring?

[@BahadorAlast]

He does come off that way, but he's actually very friendly. He's a good friend of mine. Very easygoing guy!

[@melodymontana5370]

I think I like Croatian men especially the bearded ones😘

[@dasnitch5597]

😌

[@ehsanforghani8477]

Make me wish I was a bearded Croatian man, at least I'm young!

[@gegart01]

Thanks again, Bahador. Sometimes in description u used not the last point in the word root. For example: Nur comes from Akkadian and Sumerian and only then in Middle East languages - Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Farsi :) Make Croatian and Armenian

[@hassan.1357]

Persian and farsi are one👍

[@Geoskan]

Does Marko have his own channel? Would be good if he gave some Croatian lessons. I'm learning but there aren't that many good lessons on here anywhere...

[@BahadorAlast]

He doesn't have his own channel, but you can reach him on facebook: facebook.com/marko.lopac.9

[@Geoskan]

Thank you so much!

[@zagrepcanin82]

go ahaid!if you learn it you will be able to speak and understan all other "slavic" languages....they are all versions of croatian.the biggest problem you will have is with cases of noun....in english there are 4...in croatian 7.... for example....marko said "imam pamučnu majcu"/i have cotton shirt....pamuk is cotton but in english it is infinitive and declination of the word in genitive(who? or what?....PAMUK-PAMUČNU...every case has the declination according to awnsering of a question)...and also "majca" is infinitive and genitive case (i have what?) majcU....get it?otherwise learning to read and write in croatian is simple. for example....New York...you can read it right? but if you are trying to read it letter by letter the way the letters sound it is very hard to combine that into word. in croatian the word is combination of sounds of letters....like MARKO...M-a-r-k-o k is read like c in english and c like ts in TSunami...i hope i helped a bit

[@user-ip4gz1qp1p]

vjeran vlahovic Lol Croatian is a version of West-Serbian language.Even his name,Marko,is Serbian you uneducated idiot.Don't spread your lies

[@WipeOutROKO]

This is probably one of my favorite channels, accidentally found it in my recommended videos and it's just so great. I'm from Croatia and I'd like to know if Marko can respond or if you can respond in Marko's name and tell me from what part of Croatia is he? My guess would be Zagorje or something like that.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you! :) Marko does check the comments on here, but not often. He's from Zapresic.

[@BahadorAlast]

Marko says you can contact him directly on facebook: facebook.com/marko.lopac.9

[@WipeOutROKO]

Very cool, thank you very much! Keep up the great work!

[@besosalah7730]

I think that ( kavez ) is coming from the Arabic word (kafas قفص)... I really enjoy watching all of your videos thank you ^_^

[@arzhangemamifar7702]

i could easily guess Kavez ,or Cage , and i was amazed with Jetra or liver , and oh mu Goooood Eggplant is the same EVERYWHERE , hahaha very beautiful video , i am a huge fan ,waiting for a new one to come . i loved it. great music in the electric Guitars ,cuz im a guitar player myself , thumps up Bahador .

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!!! Appreciate that a lot. Stay tuned for many more videos ❤❤

[@arzhangemamifar7702]

you're welcome .yeah man Sure i will ,this is my fav channel .

[@BahadorAlast]

❤❤

[@ToiYeuYAHWEH]

I am a Vietnamese lover of history and cultures. I have respect and love for both Iran and Hrvaska. One of my Czech friends told me that Czech History books claim that the Czech people came from the Zagros Mountains of Iran. I guess most if not all Slavs came from Iran?

[@hogerzagros8239]

zagros is the kurd mountain.

[@drycity]

Seems that czech history book is right .....ANEW , persian : azno , or zeno , russian : zanovo , serbian : iznova , slovak : znova , croatian : iznova….the reason of this similarity of persian and slavic languages about the word “anew”, is this : the word “from” in persian is “az” or “ze” , the word “from” in slavic languages is “iz” or “z” and the word “new” in both languages are similar ..and both say “from new” instead of “anew”....when you see similarity in even a preposition word like FROM iz az ze, then this means something!!

[@ToiYeuYAHWEH]

@Robar X5 Medes are Iranian people? And who are Aramaic people? Please don't spread hate against other people. Thank you.

[@chakibashi267]

@@ToiYeuYAHWEH medes are mesopotamians and aramais or Assyrians are semetic poeple !!!

[@ToiYeuYAHWEH]

@@chakibashi267 Ahhh, Aramaic and Assyrian are the same. Thanks for the info. As for Assyrians being Semitic, yes, I know this. Phoenicians, Jews, Arabs and Assyrians are all Semitic.

[@gerencserabel5458]

Please do a Persian vs Hungarian or Hungarian vs Turkish Thank you very much.🙏Great job again👍👌☺ I enjoy watching your videos always 🔥😄👍 .Keep doing it.

[@BahadorAlast]

Sure! Would love to. Would you like to assist in organizing it? You can contact us on Instagram or Facebook, itwould make it much easier to communicate since a lot of KZbin comments can get missed. Shahrzad: instagram.com/shahrzad.pe Myself: instagram.com/bahadoralast/

[@gerencserabel5458]

Bahador Alast Thank you for your answer ,very kind of you.I may not able to help you organizing. At the moment I live in Budapest. You need somebody( should be) a man/woman who lives in Toronto and (s)he speak good English and Hungarian. I wish Blessed Ramadan to you and your family.ALLAH Bless You and family,and your friends. Khoda hafez.🙏☺

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you. I appreciate that. I am not religious at all, so I didn't even know Ramadan was starting soon, but I really appreciate the sentiment and you wishes. Thank you! Khoda Hafez:)

[@Khusrav96]

Yes comparing Hungarian to one of the Turkic languages would be interesting, because there is something called Turanism that some Hungarians seem to hold dear, I wonder how prevalent it is in the evidence of the language.

[@gerencserabel5458]

Khusrav96 Hungarian orientalist and current scholasrs have shown the Hungarian language is Iranian and Turkic language group. It originated from Turani basin.Attila was the King of the Huns.The Hungarians are the brothers of the Persians and Turk peoples.

[@filippavlakovic4478]

actually, from what I have heard...first Croats came from Persia

[@CroPersian]

Indeed, many Croatians have told me about that as well! I am vey compelled to believe the notion, as evident by the similar tribal music, traditional tribal costumes, foods, and even looks. My Croatian fiancé always gets mistaken for being Iranian in Iranian stores. We look like brother and sister. What is interesting to note is that I instantly felt like he was from the same blood when I met him. I had a sort of instinctual feeling without knowing where he was from! So cool :)) I also read that the Iranian Scythians/Sarmatians inhabited Eastern Europe, and a lot of the Zoroastrian burial sites are dispersed there, along with other ancient Iranian artifacts. Greetings brother, God bless!

[@barbaricvm0]

True,its the Iranian Croatian origin theory.It's yet to be confirmed but if this is true then that would mean Serbs are the ancient Serboi.The nomadic/sarmatian tribe known to Romans.If this is true then,that would be such HUGE news,it would fix relations between Serbia and Croatia by 10000%.I hope i can live long enough to see the day when this theory is finally confirmed.

[@Markov092]

Croats are Slavonic people and Slavonic are most similar Indo-European language group to Indo-Iranian. Slavs and Aryan people even share same root paternal gene - R1a.

[@barbaricvm0]

@@Markov092 True

[@ToiYeuYAHWEH]

I am a Vietnamese lover of history and cultures. I have respect and love for both Iran and Hrvaska. One of my Czech friends told me that Czech History books claim that the Czech people came from the Zagros Mountains of Iran. I guess most if not all Slavs came from Iran?

[@Bepartofthepanacea]

Nice 👌 very interesting 👌

[@Triplex5014]

This is very interesting, I never knew my native language is so similar with Persian!

[@worldly8888]

where are you from in Croatia?

[@komandantData]

Guys, "dugme" (

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!!

[@kurdokurdistan5933]

Half of Turkish is Kurdish and Arabic

[@kurd_baloch__pkk6288]

kurdistan😍balochistan😍hindistan😍Afganistan😍tajikistan😍krwatiya😍iran😍pakistan😍brazar😍1QAWM👹👹

[@user-qb1zo3qd6i]

Тhe Turkish (Turk) word by pershan word Tark exemple name Tarkan. Name -Nom in pershan. And Saljuk at so Sahl jui.(Find mistake)

[@Kokolo-ze2cp]

I'm Croatian and I say botun or puca

[@kevinbarreau9672]

Persian also has many similarities with French. That would be awesome if you could make a video Persian vs French 😀😀 What do you think?

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you. We're planning on it :)

[@tannazmehrdadi8774]

Yes!!!!!!!!! Can't wait for that!! 😀😀😀👌👌👌

[@Mokh7777]

The problem is the person who conducts these videos are not a linguist, so they will only use words that have entered from one language to the other, instead of doing actual cognate words in languages of same family like persian and french which both are indo-european and would have tons in similiarties. So for example, instead of doing words like genou, qui, que, chose, in french which have same cognates in Persian, or dialects in parts of Iran like Gilaki and Luri which make mother father water pronounce as mer per au (similar to french mere pere eau), they will do like merci, ascenseur, sechoir which are french words that have entered into persian.

[@dymytryruban4324]

I think "Laughing Cow" in its French version is especially popular among Iranians.

[@robertrauter4984]

good one.....thank you...

[@c.3ram635]

ive seen alot of your videos and you seem to always help out and explain better to who ever is opposite of marko (croat) btw i am hrvati and bosnian so maybe im just being bias idk but i love the concept of similarities between countries languages

[@BahadorAlast]

Yes, you're right haha. Marko is a good buddy of mine, and I am much more closer with him than I am with the others who were going in against him, and it's an inside joke between us that I would do my part to side with his competition. Anyways, it's just for fun and he's a smart guy so he'll do fine regardless. It's too bad he's stationed away for work overseas until next year or I would've had him over for a lot more Croatian videos!

[@c.3ram635]

Bahador Alast Yeah man we need more croatian vs vids always fun watching him and he’s an outlet to show people more bout croatia especially in the states most people dont kno bout our small but strong country thanks for the response man respect

[@BahadorAlast]

My pleasure. I totally agree with you about Croatia! Once Marko is back in Toronto we'll set up more! It just feels odd doing Croatian videos without him and bringing someone else!

[@jondough2866]

Do a video comparing Luri and farsi.

[@kurd_baloch__pkk6288]

kurdistan😍balochistan😍hindistan😍Afganistan😍tajikistan😍krwatiya😍iran😍pakistan😍brazar😍1QAWM👹👹

[@AleksandarGospic]

hehe I learned what is Bademjan because Kashk-e Bademjan was one of my favorite dishes in Iran! As a Croatian I liked this episode very much :) Yeah, it is so funny how many similar words there are in languages, but when I listened to Iranians speak there's no way to recognize even one :)

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you so much my friend!! I'm always really happy to hear about your experiences in Iran. Much love for Croatia and the Croatian people! 🇭🇷🇭🇷

[@susamekmek3101]

12:25 In Turkish, pamuk is cotton (we use it to mean white and soft like snow; even "snowwhite" tale is translated as "cotton princess") but pembe (panbe?) is just pink. I found it strange and interesting.

[@Greezy2000]

You should do one comparing Amharic with other semitic languages. cheers!

[@worldly8888]

He did that, they have Arabic and Amharic and the new status said another Amharic video coming this summer

[@catrevenger]

For kavez i use kafez as well :) Badem (almond). Dud i call dud :) Nishan i call mishena, but we have word nishan as well :) Dzep i call dzep, but we call also dzob :) Anar i call nar :) Pamuk is pamuk im my language as well :) Barut i call barut :) Dzigrica we calling sometimes Dziger :) Also we use patlidzan for eggplant (aubergine) :) I worked with people from Iran few months and i realized in our language we use a lot words coming from Farsi :) Perde - Curtain, Dzham - Glass, Tefter - Notebook, Kapak - Lid, Dushek, Kilim - Carpet (Ghilim), Shishko, Shamar, Kumur - Coal, Dukan - Shop, Kibrit - Matches, Chorap - Socks, Chorba - Soup, Sindzhir - Chain, Gerdan - Necklace. And many, many more...

[@AMK4030]

It was interesting 😊👍 The Croatian man is handsome and friendly 😊😍👍🇮🇷🇭🇷❤

[@kurd_baloch__pkk6288]

kurdistan😍balochistan😍hindistan😍Afganistan😍tajikistan😍krwatiya😍iran😍pakistan😍brazar😍1QAWM👹👹

[@molnvr]

Neki dan sam pogledao srpski vs perzijski i mislio hoće li biti hrvatski vs perzijski i et :D btw ko hoće nek pogleda šta ima od sadržaja kod mene Nice video!

[@koljarzg]

Trebalo bi napravit Hrvatski i Srpski i onda kad jedan kaže riječ, onaj drugi se mora mislit barem 3 minute i tražit hintove. :)

[@molnvr]

@@koljarzg ahahahahaha to bi bilo dobro. realno, može se ista stvar napravit sa štokavcima, kajkavcima i ćakavcima u bilo kojoj kombinaciji

[@intel386DX]

Cool continuesion from serbian vs persian video :)

[@valleykingrob4490]

Do a trio of Italian/Spanish/Portuguese or Spanish vs Portuguese 🇲🇽

[@polayouannis1649]

as an arabic speaker I'm really surprised that there are some words we use as well kaleb(قالب)mould kafas(قفص)cage tut(توت)berry nashan(نشان)target jaib(جيب)pocket barud(بارود) bathenjan(باذنجان)eggplant

[@francescolaruffa3441]

Beautiful video! Next time Persian and Belarusian!

[@matinrahimi1813]

Persian vs Bulgarian plz

[@BahadorAlast]

Definitely plan on doing that in the future. Just trying to organize it.

[@mahsagold6187]

bulgaria 😐

[@TimBrosNick]

You should do Finnish and Estonian XD

[@issabeyatl6781]

Come on I speak the Iraqi dialect of Arabic language and Persian is very close to our dialect this is so interesting 😀 almost half of the words that you guys said are the same in our language too 😏😇

[@Coowallsky]

I like how the music in the background is not obtrusive to the video.

[@crazyplayer14komes86]

Croat = Hrvat or in old Croatian Horvat And it stands for Hor/Sun and Vat/Land which has it's roots in the old Dari language spoken in the Persian Empire. Croatians were located in the area of Helmand which is in todays Afghanistan.

[@crazyplayer14komes86]

Persian -Kuc =House Croatian-Kuca =House Or Persian Number one 1 Jedande and in Croatian Jedan And the Dalmatian people in todays Croatia had their very own Language. It had no slavic roots at all. More of Latin. The last Person beeing fluent in that language died around 1890.

[@rdtgr8]

This is simpler: Sanskrit Svarvat "sunshining", Svaru is "sun light", from which Slavic pagan god Svarog_. U/Va is interchanged in IE, so Svarvat = Survat = Hurvat / Hrvat

[@rdtgr8]

However Horvat may also be from related stem: Ukrainian Keruvaty means "to rule, to manage", Kerivnyk (Kerovanik/Kerunik - ova/iv open to close syllable change) "chief, manager". If we change nik suffix for equivalent tel (Kerovatel/Kerutel) we'll receive Latin Curator/Procurator (pro- means "via, over" so Procurator is Curator of Curators, or Supreme Curator, Supreme Administrator of Roman province). Greek Demo-Kratia is also the same stem. This Krator/Curator/Kerutel goes to Indian Kshatriya and Avestan Xshatra (Avestan is known for its R/Sh interchange the same like in Polish, so Xshaatra = Xraatra, btw now you see why U in Slavic KerUtel/KerOVAtel because Iranian AA which in Persian is pronounced close to O always goes to Slavic U/Y with exception if the word ends with AA - then will be A) which is source for Persian shaax (king of Iran). So you see in this case Xorvat means "ruling" or "ruler". However these stems are related because original meaning is from sunRISE. Ruler is Higher than people, he is Risen.

[@CroPersian]

Croatians were ancient khorosani people. The music and costumes are identical

[@tribal6352]

Tanja Komes daaaaa samo sto ti lujko pricas Srbski ...posto hrvatski jezik ne postoji ....NIJE LEPO KAD KRADES ..KAZNICE TE BOG ..!!!

[@AC-qo8oq]

This was fun to watch , as a Persian. I’m surprised by all the similarities.

[@DBvideo-s]

Croatia was partly affected by the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Ages around 150g Some words in Croatian remain from that time.

[@SerafEnd]

Wow... this is pretty awesome, so there must be some truth in the theory that Croats are coming from Persia. Interesting.

[@alicesluytermanvanlangewey1748]

Did he actually have to think so much where the words dugme and badem are concerned? I am just a learner of the croatian language and just startet level C2, yet I directly knew the meaning!

[@zagrepcanin82]

there is a flower with checkerboard pattern...hrvatska kockavica...although it is not national flower it is beautiful and interesting.the national flower is Iris croatica

[@alykodai8425]

It’s funny but our high school teacher in Persian literature would always question why Iranians would pronounce “dogme” as “dokme” as the correct pronunciation in Persian was in fact with a “g” sound. But i don’t know xD

[@servantofgod3058]

I speak Arabic and I guessed most words 0:44 kalup - Qalib (container), and if you remove the vowels "Qalb" it means heart 1:50 for some reason I guessed it, not sure but in Iraq they call it "digma" 3:07 Kaves, Qafas in Arabic and it means cage 5:43 Dud, I thought it was Dud which in Arabic means worms, but Tut in Arabic also means berries 7:40 Dzep, the pronunciation is exact same as the Croatian, and it means pocket, immediately guessed it 12:00 Barot, in where I live they call it Barod or Barot which means gunpowder 15:24 Badinjan, eggplant

[@zcsaba77]

and dzep in Hungarian is 'zseb' and kaves, qafas in Hungarian ketrec :)

[@teovu5557]

since i dont see anyone mention it but the name croatian or Hrvati is said to come from an Iranian(sarmatian)word as well as Serb. Many believes that it might not be of native Slavic lexical stock, but a borrowing from an Iranian language. Common theories from the 20th and 21st centuries derive it from an Iranian origin, the root word being a third-century Scytho-Sarmatian form attested in the Tanais Tablets as Χοροάθος (Khoroáthos, alternate forms comprise Khoróatos and Khoroúathos). Max Vasmer first considered it as a loanword from Old-Iranian, *(fšu-)haurvatā- "shepherd, cattle guardian" (formed of Avestan pasu- "cattle" and verb haurvaiti "guard"), later also from Old-Iranian hu-urvatha- "friend" comepared to Hrvat(croatian self ethnonym) as Croatians were first mention in Eastern Europe in the Sarmatian region in the 6th century.

[@darbofuchs9021]

11:18 In the sentence "Imam pamucnu majicu" it is not about deklination of the word pamuk (cotton). Pamucnnu is the deklination (akuzativ) of the word pamucna which an adjektiv.