[🇮🇷] Iranian Historical sites and architecture.

[Aryobarzan]

Imran Khan had brought this up during his visit to Iran.

I personally liked IK a lot..he is such a refined man .I do not know his politics but to me an outsider he loved Pakistan and wanted the country to progress..if he did it or not is for you guys to judge.

 

[Old School]

The number count in middle Persian is very similar to modern Urdu. 'Ek, Do, Teen, Char, Panch, Chay, Saat, Aat, No, Das', etc. It could be because of the Turkic-Mughal empire who chose Persian as the court and official language. Although they were Turkic-Uzbek rulers, they were heavily Persianized and ruled the subcontinent for a long time. That's also one of the reasons that Iran and Pakistan share a lot of similar customs.

Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi/Sindhi etc belong to Indo-Persian language family and derived from Sanskrit and Prakit. Ek do teen were in use long before the Mughals came to Indus. Actually, Old Avestani Persian is tge clisest language to Sanskrit and most Indus languages. The grammar and syntax are Prakrit with persian, Turkic, Sanskrit snd Arabic vocabulary on top of it.

 

[Old School]

Recently I have found this very interesting web site that might give you some pointers..an interesting site that covers most ancient languages including Proto_iranian languages and how they actually sound to us ..they even have old Egyptian language ..






this web site talks about ancient Farsi also It is called Pasargad institute but I do not have any more info on them.. the video is about "middle Persian" language.

I found that Georgian and Armenian alphabets look similar to old Persian alphabets.

 

[Aryobarzan]

History is being re-written with the recent discovery of Artta (Jiroft) civilization..(short clip is in English).

 

[Lulldapull]

How ancient Iranians wrote their text clay...Old Persian was inscribed in the cuneiform script,

Man that is just amazing how he did that with such a strange tool. Those characters are something else.