SA’DIYEH, Shiraz Iran
Introduction
The Persian program provides an excellent opportunity for the students to learn the ancient and modern language of Persia, Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. Persian language is an Indo-European language, related to English, French, German, and Russian, but written in an Arabic script. Students will acquire skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking to enjoy reading the language of the Epic of Kings (Shâhnâmeh) the Rubâiyât of Omar Khayyâm, and the mystical poet Rumi. Why Persian is easy to learn? Persian is a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken by people, primarily in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan - Persian is an Indo-European language
- Persian does not have grammatical gender, for instance it has no case endings or noun-adjective agreement
- Persian morphology is concatenate like English, (prefixes and suffixes are stacked on to roots in linear fashion)
- Persian drives words by means of affixation
- Persian adjective and noun it modifies stand in an ezafe relationship
- Persian makes no distinction like the “verb form” of Arabic or the “Binyamin” of Hebrew
- Persian complications are mainly concerned with verb system: Verbs have a 2X3 number by person conjugation, separate past and non-past stems, and have a large number of composite tenses that are formed by stacking participles and auxiliary verbs.
- The Persian alphabet contain all 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet plus an additional four: پ، چ، ژ، گ
- There are eight Arabic letters that are used only in spelling of Arabic loanwords: ث ، ذ، ح ، ص، ض، ط ، ظ، ع
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