{"id":19382,"date":"2024-01-16T05:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T00:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19382"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:39:53","slug":"farsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/farsi\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Farsi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Farsi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Farsi, also\u00a0known as\u00a0Persian Language, is the most widely spoken member of the\u00a0Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a\u00a0subfamily of the Indo-European languages.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0official language of Iran, and\u00a0two varieties of Persian\u00a0known as Dari and Tajik\u00a0are\u00a0official languages in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Significant populations of\u00a0Farsi speakers can be\u00a0found in other Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates),\u00a0as well as large communities in the US.<\/li>\n<li>It has about\u00a062 million native speakers, ranking it\u00a0among the world\u2019s 20 most widely spoken first languages.<\/li>\n<li>Farsi in Iran is\u00a0written in a variety of the Arabic script called Perso-Arabic, which has some innovations to account for Persian phonological differences.\u00a0This script came into use in Persia\u00a0after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century.<\/li>\n<li>Its\u00a0relatives are the languages of northern India and,\u00a0more distantly, the major\u00a0European languages including English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Classical Languages in India:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Criteria evolved by Government of India to determine declaration of a language as a Classical language is as under: &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>High antiquity of its early\u00a0texts\/recorded history over a period of\u00a01500-2000 years;<\/li>\n<li>A body of ancient literature\/texts, which is considered a\u00a0valuable heritage by generations of speakers;<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0literary tradition be original and not borrowed from another speech community;<\/li>\n<li>The classical\u00a0language and literature being distinct from modern, there may also be a discontinuity between the classical language and its later forms or its offshoots.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, six languages enjoy the \u2018Classical\u2019 status:\u00a0Tamil (declared in 2004),\u00a0Sanskrit (2005),\u00a0Kannada (2008), Telugu (2008),\u00a0Malayalam (2013), and\u00a0Odia (2014).<\/li>\n<li>The benefits it provides once a language is notified as a Classical language:\n<ul>\n<li>Two major\u00a0annual international awards for scholars of eminence in classical Indian languages.<\/li>\n<li>A Centre of Excellence for studies in Classical Languages is set up.<\/li>\n<li>The University Grants Commission is requested to create, to start with\u00a0at least in the Central Universities, a certain\u00a0number of Professional Chairs for the Classical Languages so declared.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Indo-European languages?<\/h3>\n<p>Indo-European is a family of languages (including most of the languages spoken in Europe, India, and Iran) descended from a common tongue spoken in the third millennium B.C. by agricultural people originating in southeastern Europe. The family of languages is the second-oldest in the world, only behind the Afroasiatic family (which includes the languages of ancient Egypt and early Semitic languages). In terms of written evidence, the earliest Indo-European languages that researchers have found include the Hittite, Luwian, and Mycenaean Greek languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/farsi-to-be-one-of-indias-nine-classical-languages-jaishankar\/1925081\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Farsi to be one of India\u2019s nine classical languages: Jaishankar<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farsi, also known as Persian Language, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}