Published On Apr 12, 2024
Have you ever wondered why #Farsi adopted the #Arabic alphabet? Was Farsi written even before Islam? Are Arabic and Farsi related?
I explain everything in this episode!
Research, script and voice over: @nofridaynightplans
2D & 3D animations: @nofridaynightplans
French & Arabic translations: @nofridaynightplans
Automatic translation for Farsi
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Sources
https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan...
https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan...
https://www.iranicaonline.org/article...
/ the-history-of-the-persian-written-in-arab...
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pahl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi...
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/ar...
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/mper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasania...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Bab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeme...
Music
"Energizing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Indian Cinemascope - Hanu Dixit
Assets not created by me found on
Vecteezy & Videezy
Maps
1) https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/p...
2) https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/v...
Contents
00:00 Intro
00:24 Are Farsi and Arabic linguistically related?
01:55 Old Persian
05:20 Avestan
06:20 The Sassanian Empire and Pahlavi
07:18 What is Pahlavi?
08:40 Adoption of the Arabic script
10:01 Conclusions
Thank you for watching!
#persian #persianlanguage #arabiclanguage #linguistics #history #historyfacts #arabicalphabet #pahlavi #iran