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| Heinrich S. Groupie Germany Joined 6936 days ago 63 posts - 85 votes  Studies: French | Message 1 of 4 21 April 2011 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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I am contemplating learning both Russian and Farsi/Persian, but first I would like to
know if anybody can point out any similarities in them? (Either would be great: experiences from someone you heard about or personal experience, they would both help me tons.) Similarities I can think of: -both IndoEuropean -both have French loan words -Russian and Farsi/Persian gave each other loan words? maybe? Edited by Heinrich S. on 21 April 2011 at 12:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 3 of 4 22 April 2011 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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I have studied quite a bit of Persian and some basic Russian and did not notice any significant similarities. Maybe in Tajikistan they use some Russian loanwords, since it used to be a Soviet republic (just guessing). Even where there actually are Indo-European cognates (e.g. numbers) they seemed rather obscure to me.
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| Travelleric Diglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4961 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: GreekB1, German Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 4 26 April 2011 at 1:15am | IP Logged |
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You see, these two languages present absolutely different groups. Russian belongs to Slavic group of languages. Persian is a member of the Indo-Iranian language subfamily.
Russian by its pronunciation is close to the Eastern European languages except of Romanian, which is clearly Latin, Albanian and Hungarian. The last two are decidedly incomprehensible to any other language speaker. Russian, as well as Serbian and Bulgarian, bears Cyrillic alphabet adopted from ancient Greek (which is being questioned by scientists lately). Persian as a language of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, etc. is obviously a Middle Eastern representative written in the opposite to the European script direction - from right to left. Only one point might be common in this question: both languages are members of huge Indo-European family along with Germanic and Romance groups! Good luck with your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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