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Persian alphabet
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alphabet for Persian of 32 letters
The Persian alphabet is a writing system made up of 32 letters used to write the Persian language. It's an important part of Persian culture and communication, allowing people to read and write in Persian across Iran and other Persian-speaking regions.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Arabic script
- Has part
- د
- Followed by
- Shahmukhi
- Based on
- Arabic alphabet
- Image
- Persiska alfabetet.gif
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- Commons category
- Persian alphabet
- language of work or name
- Persian
- script directionality
- right-to-left
- orientation
- right-to-left
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Persian alphabet (Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized: Alefbâ-ye Fârsi), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. An Arabic-based alphabet, it is largely identical to the Arabic alphabet with four additional letters: پ چ ژ گ (the sounds 'g', 'zh', 'ch', and 'p', respectively), in addition to the obsolete ڤ that was used for the sound /β/. This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the [β]-sound changed to [b], e.g. archaic زڤان /zaβɑn/ > زبان /zæbɒn/ 'language'. Although the sound /β/ (ڤ) is written as "و" nowadays in New Persian), it is different to the Arabic /w/ (و) sound, which uses the same letter.
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