How is Farsi different from Arabic?

Answer 1

Persian (Farsi, Dari, Tajiki) is an Indo-European language, closely related to languages like Hindi. It has been highly influenced by Arabic Vocabulary as well as slightly by neighboring languages. French, English and Russian depending of the country and region left their marks as well.

Answer 2

Persian (Farsi), the language of modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, is from the Indo-European family of languages, which means it has common roots with Greek, Latin, the Germanic and Slavic languages, and Sanskrit. Arabic is from the Semitic or Afro-Asiatic family, which includes Hebrew, Amharic, etc. The Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century brought not only the religion of Islam but the Arabic language to the Iranian plateau, which is why Persian today is written in the Arabic script. Persian has adopted a vast body of vocabulary from Arabic, though the connotations in Persian often differ from those in Arabic. Owing to the differences in language families, the grammars of the two languages are quite different. Educated Iranians can read and understand some measure of fusha or Modern Standard Arabic without being able to converse in the language. The province of Khuzestan in Iran, which borders Iraq, has a significant population of ethnic Arabs.

Answer 3

The letters in Arabic and Farsi may be similar but Farsi has 4 more letters than Arabic and is from a different family of languages. Farsi is an Indo-European language. Farsi may include many Arabic words and that's because of the vicinity of the Arab world to the geographic location of Iran throughout history above all after the Arab invasion the Persian language was disappearing but with the help of Ferdowsi a very well-known and influential poet, the language was preserved. He wrote the "Book of Kings" he spent thirty years of his life writing a book that included only a handful of Arabic words which seemed nearly impossible at the time. He is one of the main reasons why we have the Persian language today.

Answer 4

Even though they have some alphabets and words in common, they both are very different from each other. Farsi has 4 extra alphabets. The grammar and everything are different.

Answer 5

Farsi is the language spoken mainly in Iran and Afghanistan. Arabic is used by all Arab countries. Iran is not an Arab country. Both languages use the same alphabets, however Farsi has 4 additional letters than Arabic alphabets (p, ch, zh,g). Those who speak Farsi can read and pronounce the Arabic words, but they would not necessarily understand the meaning of the words and the other way around for Arabic spoken people who can read Farsi without understanding the meaning of the words.

Answer 6

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.