Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Persian:فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی; IPA2: Farhangestán e Zabán o Adab e Fársi) is a government-controlled International body presiding over the use of the Persian language in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. The academy members are academics of Persian literature and linguistics from Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... IPA, here, stands for International Persian Alphabet and 2 is both to differentiate this abbreviation from that of the renowned International Phonetic Alphabet and to accitentally indicate version 2. ... Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Persian literature (in Persian: ‎ ) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ...

History

The academy was founded in 1935. Mohammad Ali Foroughi and Ali Asghar Hekmat were the main founders of the academy. Foroughi at the court of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. ...

Memorable names, notable literary figures and highly celebrated Iranologists and scholars were the members of the academy upon its foundation.[1], such as:

• Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani
• Abdolazim Gharib
• Ahmad Matin-Daftari
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda
• Ali Akbar Siyasi
• Ali Asghar Hekmat
• Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
• Ebrahim Poordavood
• Homayun Foruzanfar
• Isa Sadiq
• Mahmoud Hessaby
• Mohammad Ali Foroughi
• Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh
• Mohammad Ghazvini
• Mohammad Hejazi
• Mohammad Taghi Bahar
• Qasem Ghani
• Rashid Yasemi
• Said Nafisi
• Zabihollah Safa

--Some international scholars were also involved, such as:^[1] Ahmad Matin-Daftari Ahmad Matin-Daftari a. ... Allameh Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (علی‌اکبر دهخدا in Persian; 1879–March 9, 1959) was a prominent Iranian linguist, and author of the most extensive dictionary of the Persian language ever published. ... Badiozzaman Forouzanfar was an oustanding master of Persian literature, Iranian linguistics and Iranian culture. ... Ebrahim Poordavood (February 9 1885 - November 17 1968)),(also written as pourdavoud , Poordavoud) was born in Rasht. ... Mahmoud Hessaby (in Persian محمود حسابی - other spellings: Mahmood Hesabi) (1903 -- September 3, 1992) was a prominent Persian scientist, researcher and professor of the University of Tehran. ... Foroughi at the court of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. ... Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh (Isfahan, 1892 - Geneva, 1997) was one of the influential Iranian writers of the 20th century. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Bahars tomb in Darband, Shemiran, Tehran. ... Gholamreza Rashid Yasemi (Persian: , b. ... Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (b. ... Zabihollah Safa (May 7, 1911 in Shahmirzad, Persia (Iran) - April 29, 1999 in Lübeck, Germany) was a scholar and professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at the University of Tehran. ...

• Arthur Christensen from Denmark
• Henry Masset from France
• Hussain Haykal from Egypt
• Raf'at Pasha from Egypt

Professor Repika from Czechoslovakia

First Farhangestan

Second Farhangestan

Third Farhangestan

Aims and activities

The Academy's main activity has been creating and approving official Persian equivalents for the foreign general or technical terms. It has also created an official orthography of the Persian language, titled Dastur e Xatt e Fársi (Persian Script Orthography). The academy also promotes research on Persian language and literature, other Iranian languages, Persian heritage, Iranology and Iranian culture. The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family with an estimated 150-200 million native speakers today. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Iranian law requires those equivalents to be used in all official communications of government bodies and government-owned companies, and in product names of all private companies.

Membership

Academy's presidents to this day have been Hassan Habibi (a previous first vice president) and Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel (the present Speaker of Parliament). Hassan Ebrahim Habibi (in Persian: حسن ابراهیم حبیبی) (born 1937?) is an Iranian politician and scholar, presently the Head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature (from October 11, 2004, for four years), and a member of the High Council of Cultural Revolution. ... Haddad-Adel Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel (غلامعلی حداد عادل in Persian) born in 1945 in Tehran, Iran, is the chairman of the Iranian Parliament. ... مجلس شورای اسلامی - The Majles; Irans Parliament. ...

The academy members (permanent and associated) are selected from Master's of Persian literature and linguistics from Iran and other Persian speaking countries throughout the world as Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Up to 10 permanent chairs (out of 25 permanent chairs) have been devoted to non-Iranian nationals. Persian literature (in Persian: ‎ ) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ...

Announcement of the Academy about the English name of Persian language

The Academy of the Persian Language and Literature has delivered a pronouncement on the English name of Persian language and rejected any usage of the word "Farsi" instead of Persian/Persa/Persane/Persisch in the Western languages. The announcement reads:

1) "Persian" has been used in a variety of publications including cultural, scientific and diplomatic documents for centuries and, therefore, it carries a very significant historical and cultural meaning. Hence, changing "Persian" to "Farsi" would negate this established important precedent.

2) Changing the usage from "Persian" to "Farsi" may give the impression that Farsi is a new language, although this may well be the intention of some users of Farsi.

3) Changing the usage may also give the impression that Farsi is a dialect used in some parts of Iran rather than the predominant (and official) language of the country.

4) The word "Farsi" has never been used in any research paper or university document in any Western language, and the proposal to begin using it would create doubt and ambiguity about the name of the official language of Iran.

Supporting this announcement, a few other institutions and literary figures separately took similar actions throughout the world.[2][3][4][5][6]

See also

• Persian language
• Persian culture
• Iranology

Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Iranology is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of Iranian cultural continent. ...

External links

• Official website of Academy of Persian Language and Literature (in Persian)
• Official website of the Assembly for the Expansion of the Persian Language شوراي گسترش زبان و ادبيات فارسي
• 71st anniversary of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (BBC Persian)
• Announcement of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature about the name of Persian language
• AriaDic Persian Language Dictionary