Please note that to play the file in MP4, you need to have Quick Time installed on your computer. ^ii. Damavand is the tallest mountain in Iran, 21. All the digits also have different codepoints in Unicode:[6]. Registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales Nunation (Persian: تنوین‎, tanvin) is the addition of one of three vowel diacritics to a noun or adjective to indicate that the word ends in an alveolar nasal sound without the addition of the letter nun.

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In Iranian Persian, none of these short vowels may be the initial or final grapheme in an isolated word, although they may appear in the final position as an inflection, when the word is part of a noun group.

For further explanations be sure to review Easy Persian Lesson 1 – The Alphabet. Registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales Help Support Easy Persian: Make a Small Donation. As to ﺀ (hamza), it has only one graphic since it is never tied to a preceding or following letter.

The Persian language spoken in Tajikistan (Tajiki Persian) is written in the Tajik alphabet, a modified version of Cyrillic alphabet since the Soviet era. Spring is the first season of the year, 20. The Modern Persian script is directly derived and developed from Arabic script. We use cookies on our website to ensure our visitors have the best experience possible whilst here. You may get it free Here. Although at first glance, they may seem similar, there are many differences in the way the different languages use the alphabets.

In 1999, the word Farsi was removed from the state-language law, reverting the name to simply Tajik. The Most Successful Singer in History, 49. © 2020 Iran Heritage Foundation. If you are totally unfamiliar with this script then you are encouraged to first click here and visit a lesson containing exercises familiarise you with the movements your hand will need to make in order to form the Persian letters. Some of the letters have small and big forms, just like A / a in English, while other letters have only one form. The names of the letter are mostly the ones used in Arabic except for the Persian pronunciation. Some of the letters have small and big forms, just like A / a in English, while other letters have only one form. For example, when the letter ا alef is at the beginning of a word such as اینجا injâ ("here"), the same form is used as in an isolated alef. Alphabet. Follow Persian Language Online on social media. info@persianlanguageonline.com, London Web Designers - Notting Hill Web Design. info@persianlanguageonline.com, © 2020 Iran Heritage Foundation.

The law also called for a gradual reintroduction of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. The only ambiguous name is he, which is used for both ح and ه. The seven letters have the same form in isolated and initial position and a second form in medial and final position. The standard Arabic version ي يـ ـيـ ـي always has 2 dots below.

[1][2][3] It is mostly but not exclusively right-to-left; mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right. To help you memorize the letters easily, I have presented it with a song. Typically, words are separated from each other by a space. The following are not actual letters but different orthographical shapes for letters, a ligature in the case of the lâm alef. Iranian History in the Sasanian Period, End of word or attached to previous letter. The first is a table of the Persian vowel sounds and the second is a table of all the letters in the Persian alphabet.