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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Reuters)


Iran: The Mullahs’ Discomfort With Persian Language

Iran: The Mullahs’ Discomfort With Persian Language

Like in most Indo-European languages, sentence arrangement in the Persian language is based on subject, object, verb or SOV in linguistic code. (In Arabic it is the other way round!) This means that the first thing that a Persian sentence does is to identify the...