Farsi Translation and Localization Services
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The Persian language has been written with a number of different scripts, including Old Persian Cuneiform, Pahlavi, Aramaic, and Avestan. After the Islamic conquest of the Persian Sassanian Empire in 642 AD, Farsi became the language of government, culture and especially religion.
Modern Persian appeared during the 9th century. It is written in a version of the Farsi script and is full of words of Farsi origin. There are also two methods of writing Persian with the Latin alphabet.
Under Mongolian and Turkish rulers, Persian was adopted as the language of government in Turkey, central Asia and India, where it was used for centuries, and until after 1900 in Kashmir.
Persian is a member of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. There are a number of closely-related varieties of Persian, including:
- Persian (فارسی), is spoken by about 40 million people, mainly in central and south central Iran. There are a further 2 million speakers in many other countries including Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, the UAE and the USA.
- Dari (درى) is spoken by about 7 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Tajiki (Тоҷики / تاجيكى) is spoken in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine by about 4.4 million people.
Persian, Farsi or Parsi?
The official language of Iran is sometimes called Farsi in English and other languages. This is a correct transliteration of the native name of the language, however many, including the ISO and the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, prefer the name Persian for the language. Some speakers use the older local name: Parsi (پارسی). There is some discussion about this topic at: www.iranian.com and wikipedia.
Iran or Persia?
Until 1935, the official name of the country currently known as Iran was Persia, though the Persian people have called their country Iran since the Sassanid period (226 - 651 AD). There's further discussion about this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_naming_dispute
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Language Intelligence offers professional Farsi translation and localization services. Our Farsi translators are all professional, native-speaking translators that have developed a proven subject matter expertise in the various types of content we translate.
Whether working from Farsi to English or English to Farsi, our Farsi translation services are designed to prepare your technical documentation, software and marketing collateral for global distribution.
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