Can Iranians understand Arabs?

Iranians don’t understand Arabic language at all. They share only alphabets and some loanwords from Arabic into Persian language (Parsi / Farsi). The shared words have different meaning from the Arabic words. Parsi which is called Farsi by Arab since there is no P word in Arabic language.

Why is the modern Persian script Persian Arabic not just Arabic?

The origin of the formation of Persian and Arabic languages The answer to this question is that the two languages are not directly related but have influenced each other. Persian and Arabic languages are two completely separate families and their origin is different.

Do Persian and Arabic use the same script?

This is largely true: modern Persian (in both Iran and Afghanistan) is written in the Perso-Arabic script, which is the Arabic script but with slight pronunciation modifications, plus a few extra letters. Every letter in Arabic exists in Persian, but Persian has four extra letters, marked below.

Is Farsi and Arabic different?

Language Groups and Families In fact, Farsi is not only in a separate language group from Arabic but it’s also in a separate language family. Arabic is in the Afro-Asiatic family while Farsi is in the Indo-European family.

Why do Iranians write in Arabic?

The Persian script is directly derived and developed from the Arabic script. After the Muslim conquest of Persia and the fall of the Sasanian Empire in the 7th century, Arabic became the language of government and especially religion in Persia for two centuries.

Is Persian Arabic?

Since Persian is an Indo-European language, it is not linguistically related to Arabic. The countries that speak Persian, such as Iran, do share many cultural traits with the Arabic-speaking world.

Are Persian and Farsi the same?

Persian, known to its native Iranian speakers as Farsi, is the official language of modern day Iran, parts of Afghanistan and the central Asian republic of Tajikistan.