Persian is spoken today primarily in Iran, but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian ...

Persian is written in Arabic script with some small adjustments. The adjustments were made to add four new letters to the script for sounds that are not represented in Arabic script. Although the ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

A detail from the 17th century Kitāb-i Sangīt, or 'Book of Music', by Shaikh ‘Abd al-Karim dedicated to Muhammad ‘Adil Shah. | In public domain, via British Library The first early modern text to ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...