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Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (341 words) |
 | Iran's languages and dialects are mostly derived from Indo-Iranian |
| The Iranian languages and dialects are radically different from the Arabic or Turkic but were affected by the invasions of 7th and 12th Centuries. |
| Fars and Farsi is the Arabic form of Parsis and Persia. |
| Rescribe: Farsi Translation Notes (231 words) |
| Persian or Farsi is the official language of Iran and is spoken by over 30 million people, primarily in Iran and Afghanistan. |
| The word "Farsi" comes from the region of "Fars" in Iran, where the language formerly spoken was Persian, so Farsi is the name for the area where Persian was spoken, and hence for the modern form of Persian. |
| The Early Modern period of the language (ninth to thirteenth centuries) is known as Classical Persian, with a strong influence from a powerful literary tradition. |
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