The Persian Language and What Makes It Fascinating

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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[@aguywhodreams]

Hands down, Persian is the most poetic language in the world. Even the name sounds poetic love from Australia!🇦🇺❤🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯

[@negin8131]

❤

[@arefabdollahi4593]

آره

[@fatemehzeinali.k5996]

From a native speaker of it I just can say thank you beautiful ❤️ Lots of love from iran🧡

[@diywithreza]

@@fatemehzeinali.k5996 ساعت ۳ شب چرا بیداری اینجا😁

[@fatemehzeinali.k5996]

@@diywithreza تو چرا ساعت چهار صبح بیداری😅😂

[@adanesh]

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.

[@StefanFuchsreiter]

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?

[@adanesh]

@@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.

[@StefanFuchsreiter]

Tashakor!! 😊🙌🏼

[@adanesh]

@@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?

[@StefanFuchsreiter]

@@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?

[@Nafosat_Toshtemirova]

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! ❤❤❤

[@kremlin1971]

Ташшакур, спасибо, рахмат

[@agostocobain2729]

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.

[@Fenixsamarkandian]

​@@agostocobain2729 how Beautifull you fake story😮

[@nasibkashani]

برای من که اهل افغانستان هستم هیچ زبانی در سطح دنیا برایم فارسی نمیشود فارسی زیباست و بزرگ، افتخار میکنم که زبانم فارسی است. 🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯

[@nilw1997]

🇦🇫 ❤️ 🇹🇯 Love you my brothers and sisters from Iran

[@agostocobain2729]

Dude imagine if we all assimilated woo wee a true force to be reckon with

[@Nmomand1]

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.

[@ihatetobethatguybut....]

🎉❤💯

[@Mujarahdeen]

@@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!

[@Qdelcoco]

Outdtanding presentation. I am 86 years old and am almost motivated to start studying Persian.

[@parsa-zg6vw]

Richard Wilson 👏👏👏👏👏❤

[@ghb290]

It's very good dear Richard. What's your purpose of learning Persian?

[@mpezeshkzad6643]

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

[@mojhdehmoasfari1913]

Richard Wilson good luck 👍

[@mhmmdkbr9]

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.

[@ahmadrezadarvishi5542]

Finally someone who knows the diffrence between persian and arabic🙂❤

[@karrarOqaili]

هههههههه

[@elsoul3439]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@yes-np4xv]

👏🏻

[@tripleabar8214]

دقیقا

[@barann.9388]

@@rezamasoudi740 اره.اونجا سر هر چیزی ی ال اضافه میکنن😂😂😂

[@18carlox32]

As an Egyptian I am interested in Persian history, culture and language 🇪🇬❤🇮🇷🇹🇯🇦🇫

[@Mujarahdeen]

thank you I guess lol

[@agostocobain2729]

Thanks and all Persians feel the same about Egypt

[@seankeller7652]

I just love Iran and it’s people. Was there five times and each time was amazing…..

[@Sonia-jk7lf]

Aw, thank you dear!

[@user-ie3zf2cu5g]

Thanks man. Wish to know why you like here?

[@zara.Rosa.khorrami1111]

That's amazing, what made you to go to Iran!

[@paymanhoseinpour8042]

thanks man, we hope everyone know that

[@arad2973]

I hope you have a good time, come to Iran again and we will receive you ❤️

[@jengo7328]

I'm Tajik🇹🇯 I respect and love Afghanistan🇦🇫 and Iran🇮🇷 because we are one people. Long live Persian

[@alideveloper6945]

actually...All the people of the world are one people...we don't deffer...Love everybody

[@jengo7328]

@@alideveloper6945 Com away, boy.

[@PolyAgain]

ایول!

[@sorena6901]

as iranian we love all of you god bless you

[@hastidehghani1652]

Hey! Love from Iran!

[@BabulAli]

Farsi in my opinion is the most poetic language I've ever heard.

[@ohman3915]

Sorry, Arabic Fus'ha

[@rajab4187]

Sweetest language I ever heard Very close to my mother tongue balochi

[@Heimdal8212]

Some time ago, I read a comment saying that Persian sounded like the language a dragon would speak.

[@GraciaS40]

I love irani poetry 😍🤗persian language ❤👌👍

[@miropribanic5581]

language of Firdausi, Rumi and Hafeez...world literature

[@jonimaricruz1692]

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.

[@learningpersianwithkimia1480]

If you wanna learn Persian I can help you I am gonna be teaching Persian in my channel

[@vitoradfar6525]

Thanks its in every Persian blood hospitality from the hard

[@Toha11174]

Великий и могучий персидский язык! 😊

[@user-vx8rz9yi5g]

😂😂😂

[@sadpoet1624]

Монгол, который потерял свой язык и перенял тюркский язык. Это твоя история, чем будешь оправдываться? ​@@user-vx8rz9yi5g

[@user-xf8ip2yo7x]

​@@user-vx8rz9yi5gчто рот разинул обезяна?

[@monickalinneasehlin8117]

Persian is a beautiful and very expressive language. I have bachelordegree in Persian and I've been in Iran eight times. So wonderful people...

[@amirhosseinshirkhanlou9032]

@@hameedpaiman5855 shame on you

[@non-aggressionpact8575]

Hameed Paiman خفه هزاره مغول

[@ebrahim.1146]

I'm glad you like iranian people. People are good But as anyone know our government is......

[@monickalinneasehlin8117]

@@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.

[@anzizes-7599]

glad you liked visiting us azizam

[@channelthegijoeshow]

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,

[@psuyog]

Persian was court language in Northern India not in South India or Maharashtra.

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

Only in Muslim sultanates and Mughal empires. Not by the Travancore, Maratha, Rajput and Sikhs.

[@channelthegijoeshow]

+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

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

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.

[@zagros5543]

+Afghan /Pathan لایک داری برادر

[@farzan000]

Here I learned a lot about history of my country language (Persian) from a non Iranian scholar! Well done Paul, you are fantastic.

[@Langfocus]

Thanks, Ahmad! I appreciate the kind words.

[@BactrianNomad]

Persian is one of the most influential languages in the history of civilizations.

[@fereshte1317]

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.

[@asadmech12]

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...

[@falaghsepehr5504]

Arabic is a complete language though. (I'm an Iranian btw)

[@margaritakleinman5701]

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.

[@violetta278]

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

[@fereshte1317]

I'm happy you guys are finding Persian and its poems enjoyable! :)

[@MistaOneGuy]

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.

[@firdousfaizzad747]

Exactly as an afghan I understand whatever an Iranian says but they don't get properly what I say.

[@sael52]

Actually, I have no problem understanding Afghan people.

[@MistaOneGuy]

@@sael52 just as some Americans don't have a problem understanding Scott's speaking English. But not the norm

[@parhamrahimi8050]

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.

[@MistaOneGuy]

@@parhamrahimi8050 I grew up with Afghans and Iranians. Afghani people typically understand Iranians far more easily than Iranians understand them, exposure or not..

[@sahbasadr9247]

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.

[@muslimbakha]

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...

[@tjfors4423]

I love you Tajikiston, Afghanistan, Iran

[@parisabar8419]

Thank u so much 🙏

[@robixmaster6525]

Long live persian brother and sister from Kurdistan Bijî Aryanam🇹🇯❤️

[@hamidjan6055]

هر قدر ما به هم نزديك باشيم قدرتمندتر خواهيم شد . جاويدان و پاينده ﺑﺎﺩ فارسي زبان ها ما زنده ﺑﺎﺩ 💐💐💐💐.

[@Seven-or1lx]

Amm tenks and where are you from?

[@nocomments3201]

@@Seven-or1lx he's from Tajikistan

[@ashrafsadat4756]

موفق باشید فارسی زبانان عزیز در سراسر جهان. از افغانستان. Be success! All dear persian speakers in around the world. From Afghanistan.🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

Ashraf Sadat قربونت رفیق😉

[@shahramyazdani5007]

Zendeh bad baradar mehrban afghan:-)

[@ghb290]

❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 from Iran & Iranian

[@lucidcreed2585]

zende bashid!

[@afghanistanonline910]

Thank you Ashraf Jaan. ممنون عزیزم

[@mitraj7763]

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!

[@ranjitneelakandan9551]

Even Persians have names like Mitra ? Its a very common name in India and comes from old Sanskrit.

[@mitraj7763]

@@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

[@ranjitneelakandan9551]

@@mitraj7763 Wow!

[@samuraijosh1595]

@@ranjitneelakandan9551 sanskrit from old indo iranian...

[@a.pourihosseini]

How dare you educate me on my own culture/language :DD Thanks for the video, enjoyed it quite a lot!

[@DimaKats2]

I really like how Farsi sounds, soft and beautiful in my opinion. I had some Persian friends in Cyprus. Greetings frkm Cyprus!

[@Elias.04]

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. 🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯

[@soldier4007]

you can easily talk with all iranians :))

[@sadboy4511]

آسونه 😀

[@learningpersianwithkimia1480]

I can teach you Persian

[@pubgfun1586]

🇮🇷🇮🇷🇦🇫🇦🇫🇹🇯

[@wkr3501]

you dont need anything more we can easily speak & understand eachother! you dnt trust me?lets talk❤❤》》》》درود بر شما الیاس خانم

[@adel.m7540]

It was so cool! Thank You so much for your accurate and complete information ♡♡♡

[@ariyectajik3322]

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!

[@aryana7253]

Please don't add the AL prefix because we, people with the Farsi language, don't call our great celebrities with the prefix AL !

[@soniya439]

I m a Tajik Persian from Tajikistan enjoyed your video thank you

[@emadsoltanzadehmoosavi8202]

Dorood bar hamvatan Tajik Zende bad empraturie Pars

[@irandokhtmahla2670]

بسی رنج بردم در این سال سی عجم زنده کردم بدین پارسی زنده باد فردوسی🍀❤

[@faradaz714]

در واقع روحش شاد😄❤🖤

[@Nazanin_Hosseini]

@@faradaz714 در واقع نام و یادش زنده باد.

[@immajoosiiamproud9407]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@mahmoudsayyahi5117]

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

[@immajoosiiamproud9407]

سس ماست داداش

[@Filmtvyt]

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.

[@SaxandRelax]

Can we just take a bit to appreciate Paul? Fr. He’s funny, handsome, smart, and entertaining.

[@lizlg719]

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.

[@ramtinjokar1545]

Where are you from? :|

[@lizlg719]

@@ramtinjokar1545 North Dakota

[@ahrya3148]

Nice, u got a little elite blood in u

[@erfanrahmani]

If you needed help, I would happily deliver

[@moe2329]

@@ahrya3148 that comment is considered racist in western world.

[@user-tm7ef2nz6n]

I'm from iran and I love travel to Tajikistan and Afghanistan because they are like my family ❤❤❤ thanks

[@farzadzafar4730]

فدات برادرم هر وقت عزم سفر کردی از کابل شروع تا تخار و بدخشان در خدمتم😊💚

[@user-tm7ef2nz6n]

@arshiamdne سلام خوبی ؟

[@user-tm7ef2nz6n]

@arshiamdne قربانت اهل کجایی؟

[@terryfalcon2310]

Welcome to Ossetia! We are Indo-Iranian too!

[@avatarmong]

@muscular bear به امیدت برسی. من هزاره-فارسی زبان اهل افغانستان مرکزی

[@amirhosseinrezapour1799]

That was very nice 👍🏻 As a Persian I really enjoy seeing such videos that are spreading great info on my language Thank you 🙌🏻🇮🇷🇮🇷❤️

[@zeina1503]

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 😊

[@user-hx8ph8mq3k]

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 )

[@Miuranger1]

Lowest of the genetic pool

[@funchidor]

а где живешь? я сам Иранец)

[@leojakob6625]

Kako Mohammed fuck you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@OverlyCurly]

Миша Южный mamnoon. Arezu e movafaqiat baraye shoma dust e aziz

[@Shantia75]

fada mada from fars area :* ♥

[@gilbertdeclerk7215]

Seeing you excited about 10k subs when you have nearly a mil makes me smile

[@Langfocus]

Those were the days!

[@rashidsorosh773]

@@Langfocus 1.2m

[@analizabasas3227]

Twas 4 years ago honey. Congrats Paul! Ang galing mo!!!

[@richardcarroll9864]

he has over a million now

[@zara.Rosa.khorrami1111]

Thank you for introducing the persian language really well to the world :)

[@arminhasanpour937]

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

[@fatemehmohammadifar9913]

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.

[@ibrahimhcaglayan]

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.

[@akzuuyas]

Im also persian too! I love it when it gets brought up because I feel more proud to be persian!

[@gauravshah89]

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.

[@gauravshah89]

Also, stop using that arabic script. Use the pre-islamic script that developed for persian language.

[@varient3217]

@@gauravshah89 Arabic is what makes the persian script beautiful.

[@amirking6324]

I'm an Persian speaker from Afghanistan, we Persian people love the people all around the world

[@moe2329]

really? what about the jews?

[@Toophunn]

Well speaking Persian doesn't make you Persian, Specially if you are Afghan

[@mojcyrus1495]

But afghans are not Persian، just iranian are Persian.

[@s_for96]

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.

[@dharma4914]

@@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

[@Sammy325]

Loved this video, thanks for it❤🤝🏻 خیلی زیبا و جالب گفتی😍

[@user-uz6fx7vy7r]

I love you TAJIKISTAN IRON AFGHANISTAN 🇹🇯🤝🇮🇷🤝🇦🇫 Persian salam bay forson az Tajikistan

[@ys43327]

Saaaalaaaam 🇮🇷🇹🇯☝️we are one

[@saeedhafezy6746]

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,

[@Langfocus]

+Saeed Hafezy Thanks! I appreciate that!

[@saeedasl8025]

Cheers to your buddy

[@ismatullorahimov3445]

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. 😄

[@miadt-fni2516]

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

[@amirmohammad9617]

And we should be happy that we have Avicenna

[@esmaeilzarei8548]

great presentation of Persian language,. Great Job Langfocus

[@ajafari8522]

This video is nice and true. I am an Iranian and just I can say thank you for introduce my language 💚🤍❤️.

[@raikuhebi]

I'm Turkish. I love considering how in approx. 1500s an educated Turk living in Europe and an educated Indian Muslim from Central India, would be able to communicate with each other as they would both be primarily Persian speakers. Indeed Persian was still learned by the elites of Turkey and India up to the early 20th century. It had a similar status to Ancient Greek/Latin in Europe. Imagine if Persian remained spoken languages in these places today, then there would be so much cultural and economic exchange between Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the Central Asian 'stans! Plus historically Persian was a prestige language in Georgia and Armenia as well.

[@persianguy1524]

+Varoon funny thing is that Sanskrit is also the language of the invaders

[@mrpersianality6363]

Of course Sanscrit developed in India, and he's right. Persian was the court language of the Turkic invaders. However, there were competing court languages... Ottoman Turkish, Chaghatai, etc. What made Persian a lingua franca was that it was the language of the bazaaris and the caravans... not so much because of any social high standing.

[@mrpersianality6363]

Sanscrit isn't a proto ie language. It's history has been traced. Also, Urdu replaced Persian as a court language in India Pakistan starting in the 15th century.

[@mrpersianality6363]

IE peoples arrived and their languages evolved....into Vedic, sanscrit etc

[@95bekirable]

Actually, they could communicate because Mughals were originally speaking a turkic language. Ottoman Turkish and Persian are not mutually intelligible despite that Ottoman Turkish was heavily persianized.

[@ZenFox0]

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.

[@kulsumh1334]

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

[@mahdi24me]

Yes arabic letters are hard for us too, we have many problems in dictation in schools and sometimes in offices. But we have second alphabet and it's latin. Our original alphabet is Pahlavi and it doesn't use today. U can learn Persian but write in Parglisi/Pingilish!

[@mahdi24me]

Our language is sweet and easy and it's Indo-European (Arian) Letters in Persian are easier and softer than Arabic & Turkish, Our Alphabet is: A (A in Apple)🍎 Â (O in fOrrest)🌳 B (B in Bee)🐝 C (CH in CHerry)🍒 D (D in Dollar)💵 E (E in mEn)👬🏼 Ê (TT in buTTon)🔘 F (F in Four)4️⃣ G (G in Girl)🙋🏼‍♀️ H (H in Hi)👋🏻 I (I in Iran)💚⚪❤ J (J in Job)💼 K (C in Cat)🐱 L (L in Lion)🦁 M (M in Music)🎶 N (N in No)🚫 O (O in Orange)🍊 P (P in Printer)🖨 Q (Not in English but like afGHan) R (R in Rain)🌧 S (S in Spider)🕷 Š (SH in SHirt)👕 T (T in Time)⏰ U (OO in mOOn)🌛 V (V in riVer)🏞 W (O in One)1️⃣ X (Not in English but like KHaki) Y (Y in Yes)✅ Z (Z in Zebra)🦓 Ž (SI in televiSIon)🖥 Note that every letter jus has ONE sound and there are 30 letters in Parsi)

[@mahdi24me]

And numbers in Persian: 💚⚪❤ Yek 1 Dow 2 Se 3 Câr 4 Panj 5 Šiš 6 Haft 7 Hašt 8 Noh 9 Dah 10 Yâzdah 11 Davâzdah 12 Sizdah 13 Cârdah 14 Punzdah (Pânzdah) 15 Šunzdah (Šânzdah) 16 Hifdah (Hevdah) 17 Hijdah (Heždah) 18 Nuzdah 19 Bist 20 Bist o yek 21 Bist o do 22 ... Si 30 Cel 40 Panjâh 50 Šast 60 Haftâd 70 Haštâd 80 Navad 90 Sad (YekSad) 100 Devist (Divist) 200 Sisad (Sesad) 300 Cârsad 400 Ponsad (Pânsad) 500 Šešsad 600 Haftsad 700 Haštsad 800 Nohsad 900 Hezâr (YekHezâr) 1,000 ... Yek Miliyun 1,000,000 ... Yek Miliyard (Yek Biliyun) 1,000,000,000

[@mahdi24me]

@@kulsumh1334 read my comments👆🔝. It may help u!😀💚⚪❤

[@angelejan1307]

Why are you so good? Many thanks for your great video. Good job and well done.

[@mohsenebrahimzade2139]

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

[@ss-nq4sq]

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!

[@setarehsh97]

I, as an Iranian, wanna say that I love all Persian speakers. no matter how different their accent, culture, and religions are.

[@user-jv3mm6vt6e]

I don't. I like to stay seperated

[@amirrezakhaleghi1980]

I dont hate those who shares tradition language history with my dear country

[@Ardeshir8]

We don't hate each other, we hate the powers that keep us separated!!

[@ryuuzakilover]

@@setarehsh97 MECI AZIZ AM

[@cemyildiz7842]

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.

[@behnamsepand78]

French is Persian of the west.

[@jackrabbit4617]

Bro the language of literature in Europe, is german

[@zulolaifaiziddin3992]

@Bahraini Girl zaboni faronsavi zebotar ast nisbat ba forsi barodar!

[@zulolaifaiziddin3992]

@Bahraini Girl i said french is more beautiful then persian

[@zulolaifaiziddin3992]

@Bahraini Girl i wrote it in persian because i thought 😂 you are persian , sorry pls

[@alipour1747]

You explained fully to undrestand other people with Persian Thank you with your full information

[@doctorstrangelove9487]

Hats off to you with your knowledge about languages.

[@yeounchoi5661]

I am a south korean, learning farsi. This is really great video I think! Thanks

[@moe2329]

what made you interested in Persian language in this age ?

[@xyz-hs9ix]

Hey! I'm actually an iranian learning korean! Let's be friends :)))

[@TaeTae-df3wy]

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.

[@maniyanarian4183]

안녕하새요 저는 헌국어를 배웁니다....lets be 친구 ... I'm iranain 🤗

[@kulsumh1334]

Any advice on how you're learning?

[@arnavroy3383]

As an indian i really admire & respect our cultured neighbors in persia

[@disciplinedg6682]

Then why do you hate pakistan 😂

[@asimirfan623]

Pakistan is Iran's neighor, not India. Its like saying Turkey's neighbor is Afghanistan.

[@napoleonbonaparte937]

@@asimirfan623 Thanks to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for creating my Beautiful Bangladesh by breaking Pakistan apart. Joy Bangla ⚔️🇧🇩⚔️🇧🇩⚔️🇧🇩

[@KnockerTheExtraordinaire]

@@disciplinedg6682 in the past pakistan was part of india but they were muslim and wanted to be separated from them. And they succeeded

[@asimirfan623]

@@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...

[@amir1i1]

I really enjoyed your explanations, I especially liked your way of expression, you speak in a special way and you make a series of movements while you speak, which I personally like a lot💯😍👌🏻

[@parmisghazi]

Great video. Thank you so much❤👏🏼

[@diogorodrigues747]

4 years ago: 10k subscribers Now: 1M subscribers Congratulations!

[@Langfocus]

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.

[@kachahaan1660]

@@Langfocus 😅

[@betularslan910]

I am Turkish and love Farsi!! Would love to learn that Amazing language❤️❤️

[@Perririri]

İran ! Farsça Dili !

[@user-uq9ry7eb7v]

Yashasin iran and turkey

[@afshinkarampur6356]

Harika , iyi şanslar. Selam Irandan.

[@PolyAgain]

بهتره سریع تر پس یاد بگیری!! تازه سلام!😀 Then you better learn it as fast as possible!! By the way hi!😀

[@Saiputera]

Nah we iranian hate turkish

[@Forouzk]

Thank you so much for introducing Persian ❤️❤️

[@kianazarbarzin5776]

I really like the way that you compared and contrasted the different versions of Persian across Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. I speak the version of Persian that is the native language of Iran and can concur with the idea that there is a strong indo-european influence for Iranian Persian. For example, the word for "thank you" and "elevator" are both derived from the French language. I do not speak Dari or Tajiki, but I have heard my friends use it before and agree with your point that they are rather mutually intelligible. Whenever I hear them speak these Persian varieties, I am able to understand a few words here and there but know that if I was a native Persian speaker and had more experience around these varieties then I'd be more successful in understanding those languages. In addition, it is very interesting to me that these varieties of Persian are more mutually intelligible among formal speakers rather than casual speakers. I believe that it would have something to do with the formal speakers being more educated and literate, hence allowing them greater exposure to these varieties. I would also like to highlight your proper historical research on the origins of the words "Parsig" or "Parsik" and how those were the original names for the Middle Persian language before the Arabian conquest. I was hoping that you would continue your conversation about that topic and include that people say "Farsi" to describe the Modern Persian language because the Arab conquerors changed the name since there is no letter "P" in the Arabic language. Overall, I think your video was great and commend you for your research on such a rich and diverse culture.

[@jwalkin5123]

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.

[@YeeSoest]

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

[@alex.afshar-film]

​@@YeeSoest Goethe was very much influenced by Persian poets. But yes German has a lot of poets too.

[@alex.afshar-film]

@Anton Boludo Watch this poetic short film in Persian: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6fJhaV7odaIjJo

[@mikeeghtebas8231]

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.

[@damomand]

Love this!

[@javadnamjoo1235]

Thanks Bro im iranian and i didnt know this myself 🤣🤣🤣

[@SaidAbdullo]

Well said! I think it's totally true because dari language and Afghanistan placed between Iran and Tajikistan.

[@abolfazlheydari5764]

thank you for creating such a great content on Persian by far thee most poetic language ever exited!

[@Langfocus]

It’s my pleasure. I’m glad you like it! 😊

[@jonahruffalo640]

Thank you Paul! You’re information is inspirational ! :)

[@elimalinsky7069]

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.

[@elimalinsky7069]

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.

[@hasen1957]

In Arabic, we say كش ملك "kish melik" which is rather malformed but means roughly "chase king".

[@anasmansour5606]

+Eli Malinsky i was going to say that shah mat is arabic but you cleared that out for me. thanks mate ;)

[@mahmoodtajar]

''maat'' is persian for ''shocked''! not ''maat'' in arabic/verb//meaning ''died''!

[@anasmansour5606]

***** oh wow! It is really interesting. Thanks for sharing mate. :)

[@neemapaxima6116]

The word "Balcony" is also of Persian origin... Bal (Bala) = Upper, Cony (Khune) = House

[@jsf3669]

+Neema Paxima Haha never thought of it that way.

[@hemansx]

+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

[@WorldMusicMasters]

+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 ...

[@djcrudept6879]

Why do u look mughal ?

[@hemansx]

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.

[@starlionine7977]

I really enjoyed every second of this. so true and useful

[@nonofyebiz1868]

Yes, ihis videuo is educational... And interesting, lively and fun! Enchanted and subscribed !

[@sazgarmuhammad8364]

l speak Kurdish , love my Persian brothers and sisters

[@chenarghadas5898]

Tnx sister viva aryan peopel بژی کورد

[@alpha-hl9dy]

kurdish is a farsi sub branch language .and kurds are iranain. no mater where the live.

[@aminghrahmaty6720]

We love you too my friend

[@sazgarmuhammad8364]

@@alpha-hl9dy Keep Crying:)

[@archived11]

@@alpha-hl9dy that is so stupid of you to say. Kurds are not Iranians but rather just in the same language family.

[@shohrukhqayumov4452]

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 [🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯]😻

[@minayazdanbin2184]

We love Tajikistan and Afghanistan too!

[@rajab4187]

Zinda Bashyd . Salam wa ehtaram Az yek baloch ra bepazeered سلام و احترام از یک بلوچ را بپذیرید

[@sammt200]

Dorood bar shoma ✌

[@nevermind9730]

I wish you the best. We have a common history. Iran Tajik Afghan😘

[@syruseye]

Persians Ajam of Bahrain Ajam of Iraq Tajiks Farsiwan Tats Pashtuns Sarbani Durrani Abdali Bettani Ghiliji Lodi Karlani Kurds Zaza Yazidis Shabaks Baluchis Gilakis Mazanderanis Lurs Bakhtiaris Laks Pamiris Sariqoli Shugni Tajiks of China Wakhi Talysh Ossetian Digor Iron Jasz Yagnobi Kumzari Irani of India Parsi Azeris Medes Turkmens Uzbeks Uyghurs Sakas Massagatae Sarmatians Croats Serbs Bulgarians Shirazis of East African Coast Scythians Turan Parthians Bactrians Alans Sogdians Dahae Khwarezmians Sagartians Cimmerians Yaghnobis Hazari

[@HeadmostCantaloupe]

Thanks for covering our language! دستت درد نکنه

[@ApteraEV2024]

Thank you, So Educational!)) Congrats on now 1.34M Subs! متشکرم، بسیار آموزنده!)) اکنون 1.34 میلیون مشترک را تبریک می گویم!

[@connermiller7982]

10,000 at January? You're close to 200,000! Congratulations on the rapid channel growth

[@Langfocus]

+Rubik's Cube Thanks!

[@markuslebt]

quality content --> many subscribers !

[@ElEcodelTren]

ahahahhahaha thatwhat i was about to say!!!

[@sleepy314]

Conner Miller now, 3 months later 275000!

[@Wakemeup456]

As of July 2017, he's up to 360,000+ subscribers!

[@flapperf4237]

I think it is pronounced [E-RAAN] rather than [I-RAN] as I have heard from native speakers.

[@ashkanahmadi]

It has to pronunciations: eeraan or I-ran. Just like Iraq: eeraq and I-raq. Both are acceptable. George Bush always said I-ran!

[@digiart622]

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

[@BabakHamedani]

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.

[@TGIFurry]

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.

[@flapperf4237]

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.

[@shahrzadas2935]

It was awesome. Even if for me as a native persian. I've been struggling with explaining these things in swedish to my husband and I found this video. Thanks for awesome information.

[@nesherben-negev1345]

Your channel is captivating!! Learning a lot about languages.

[@zakariazaki3776]

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.

[@theq7957]

Well said mate!

[@ye23.]

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

[@reyhanezangiabadi6307]

I’m Persian but unfortunately I didn’t know most of the information you gave about my language. So glad for your useful information ❤️

[@marklucca3044]

Really sorry. I'm Persian, and my parents taught me ow to speak our language.

[@farhangshahri7949]

*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

[@kasrahosseini7380]

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

[@kaoruyamazaki5724]

What a wonderful and educational video. Thank you

[@vikvik9573]

LOVE FROM ROMANIA❤️ZENDE BAAD IRAN !!!❤️❤️❤️

[@afshin7]

Love Romania from Iran❤viva Romania❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@vikvik9573]

afshin ansari Thank you🤗

[@bellacruz9440]

Salut si numai bine! Viva Romania!

[@mohsenabbasi6134]

Love Romanian from Iran

[@vikvik9573]

Bella Cruz ❤️❤️

[@siamakafiat7517]

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

[@siamakafiat7517]

May be Happy😊

[@aryyancarman705]

@red 1 in Sanskrit -sumata ,sukta and suvarshtra would be cognates

[@aryyancarman705]

@red 1 velcom Avestan,old Persian, Sanskrit are really the closest cousins, with Proto indo Aryan and Proto Iranian being brothers/sisters

[@kimsherlock8969]

Language puts perspective into a wonderful focus on history. I have benefited from listening . I see Persian beauty in Architectures of music , poetry, philosophy, dance, grace and love.

[@workoholekhh7542]

Your research is really good. Well DONE

[@sukhrajsinghmehrok7443]

I am from India but we have religious scripture written in Persian: KAMAAL-E KARAAMAT KAA-YAM KAREEM RAZA BAKSH RAZAK RAHAAKUN RAHIM. AMAAN BAKSH BAKSHINDEH-O DASTGIR KHATAA BAKSH ROZI DEH-O DILPAZIR SHAHANSHAH-E KHUBI DEHH-O RAH-NAMUN KI BE-GOON BE-CHOON CHOON BE-NAMUN

[@arvindkahar4357]

Zafarnama

[@blackgi5681]

Yes because in that time all subcontine oficial lenguaje was parsi.

[@blackgi5681]

And many sufis writer khow parsi lengua.

[@shabnammozafari8192]

Wow😍

[@persiantech8510]

*Sukhraj singh mehrok kia aap ki pass es alfaz ka writing Farsi word mai hain ye farsi ka alfaz hain liken Enlgish word main lika howa hai meri khayal se is writing ki kuch alfaz main badlaow kia gaya hain sub main badlaow nahe hain kuch alfaz main badlao kia gaya hain or ye Farsi alfazi ki poetry word main lika gaya hain Farsi ki poetry alfaz main kam lafzo main ziyada meaning hota hain*

[@Ratzfourtyfour]

I've just learned that our German Schachmatt sounds exactly like the original Persian word.

[@huskyfaninmass1042]

Sounds like Russian "shakhmati".

[@Colombo5573]

In Polish it sounds "szachmat"

[@alimezher2088]

actually its arabic and persian (shah=king of persian) (mat= the past verb of dead in arabic=died )

[@kacperwoch4368]

In Polish it sounds pretty the same like the orginal phrase. Do English speakers call Persian kings ''checks''?

[@Iranifree]

Built of 2 persian words: Schach= shah=king and Maatt=shocked. which means together the shocked shah= game over:)

[@hamidrezahosseinkhani5980]

Thank you for such a great video.

[@troytomohenjodaro]

Love from india.i love Persian language

[@VitalijKaramakov]

English - Mother German - Mutter Russian - Mater' Spanish/Italian - Madre Persian - Maadar Portuguese - Abajur French - Abat-jour Bulgarian/Russian - Abazhur Persian - âbâzhur

[@quentinh3178]

French is "mere " (with the accent)

[@zak.886]

Quentin h as a person who lives in Canada and studies french due to it being mandatory i would like to know, what on earth does abat-jour mean?

[@traditionalsunni629]

Urdu = Am'mi, Maa, Amma 😂

[@zak.886]

Traditional Sunni what does this mean?

[@alishahhaider1311]

@@zak.886 ways of saying mum

[@streamx2]

I am Afghan and my ethnicity is Tajik which means my native language is Farsi. This is one of the most beautiful videos i have ever watched, its full of facts and i know i wouldn't be able to produce a video like this if i did not know the information already and was not an Afghan or Iranian. There is so much hatred from "Afghans" towards Iranian people on the internet which makes no sense because "Afghans" have a common culture and language with Iran, not to mention "Afghan" refugees living in Iran for almost 3 decades. The reason for the hatred is that Afghanistan is a multicultural society, like i said my ethnicity is Tajik, Tajiks in Afghanistan have the dominant culture and language ( Farsi). There is another ethnicity in Afghanistan called Pashton who wear that Indian or Arab type clothes, speak "Pashto", support the Taliban, 99% of the Taliban are from that ethnicity and hate Tajiks and even more Iran. This is what i wish every Iranian would understand and support the Tajiks in Afghanistan. The Pashtons are trying to destroy our language and culture and Iranians can do so much to help. For example the majority of Afghan refugees in Iran are Tajiks and Hazara, Iran should allow them to get an education so at-least they are able to write and read their own language. Next time you see a negative comment about Iran from an "Afghan", remember not all of us are from the same ethnicity.

[@streamx2]

They are trying like never before but its ok because we try 100 times harder.

[@mahmoodtajar]

yes! ''taliban'' hate anything ''logical'' as ''abu sufyan and bani umayyah hated prophet mohammad and ali''!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@iadamha]

You are a brave man. Iranians and Tajiks are Persian and same people. we persians love tajik peopl like our own family members.

[@streamx2]

When Iranian people see a negative comment they are really quick to say "Afghani this" "Afghani that" without realising that the Tajiks in Afghanistan would never say or do anything negative against Iran because to them its like their own country, their own people. Actually the only Afghan ethnicity that hates Iran and Farsi are the Pashtons, the Uzebks, Turkmen and Hazara are the same as the Tajiks. For any Iranian reading this, please realise that Pashtons are trying like never before to get rid of the Persian language in Afghanistan, while the Iranian government should be doing everything it can to help the Afghan/Tajiks it instead does other things. Iran has the resources to help the Tajiks, it can help publish books,accept Afghan Tajik students at its universities but instead it almost does nothing which is really strange.

[@streamx2]

GET LOST, I stopped reading when you said Dari is not Farsi. Dari is a political name given to Farsi in Afghanistan by the filthy pashtons. Farsi in Afghanistan is the same as Farsi in Iran. Have you heard the phrase " pashton e khar". Do you know why people call the pashtons donkeys?

[@heliaalinezhad6463]

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 🌻

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

We don't hate the people, we hate the governments which don't represent the people :)

[@mfathi6893]

Very nice clip about persian language. 👌👌👌Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

[@paulavery1912]

I want to learn Persian to gain deeper knowledge of Persian history and culture!

[@mohammadrezakhani9598]

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

[@SamiP-ik7vj]

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).

[@mohammadrezakhani9598]

Looking forward to talking to you

[@Konrad_Wallenrod]

Paul Avery same here!

[@basheermominzadah2217]

tolonews

[@AS-dr1cp]

Wa Assalamu alaykum from Turkmenistan my Farsi brothers, lots of Farsi words are in Turkmen too.

[@afshinkarampur6356]

and many turkish word in farsi. it is amazing when learning turkish language and read shared words.

[@kongodc8831]

@@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

[@afshinkarampur6356]

@@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 .....

[@kongodc8831]

@@afshinkarampur6356 thanks i never knew that.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Afshin Karampur wow

[@ndubuisiezeoye2099]

Very educative!.Thanks alot dear

[@hhh-pw2ok]

I am a Persian speaker and I like my language very much. Persian language is very beautiful.💖💖