15 facts on the beautiful Farsi/Dari/Persian language, an official language of Afghanistan. Fact 1: The Persian language has generally been regarded as one of the most prestigious throughout history (some people objected, but every language has its critics). It is associated with powerful empires, culture, poetry and scholarship. Fact 2: There survive very little examples of written "Old" Persian of the Achaemenids (550-330 BC). The lingua franca, administrative & official language of the Achaemenid empire was Aramaic, a Semetic language. The Achaemenid aristocracy / elites also spoke Elamite & Aramaic. Fact 3: The court language of the Sassanids (224-651 CE) was "Middle" Persian, but it did not replace the old lingua franca of the region. Most people in the Sassanid empire, including the vast majority of Iranic people, preserved their languages and were not Persian speakers. Fact 4: When Arabs defeated the Sassanids in the 7th century, it resulted in ...
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