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To: sionnsar

I thought it was Farsi not Parsi???


25 posted on 06/28/2009 4:02:18 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59; nuconvert
I thought it was Farsi not Parsi???

I am told by P/Farsiphones that in Arabic it's "Farsi" (because Arabic doesn't have the 'p' sound) but in P/Farsi it's "Parsi."

Interestingly, according to the Iran Chamber Society the letter for 'p' doesn't exist in Arabic. The common letter for 'f' is quite different.

40 posted on 06/28/2009 4:37:55 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
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