In this language challenge episode, two Russian speakers, Alex and Bogdan, compete against two Persian speakers, Sara and Amir. There are some intriguing similarities between the two languages that may surprise a lot of people. Although one is a Slavic language and the other is Iranian, due to the historical interactions between them, Russian and Persian have adopted several words from one another. Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Russian is the most widely spoken of all Slavic languages, with a very significant number of speakers in Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, and to a lesser extent, the other post-Soviet states. Russian and Persian are both Indo-European languages, and Russian, being a Slavic language, is one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages. The Persian language, which at times is referred to by its endonym Farsi, is a Western Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It holds official status in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is referred to as Dari in Afghanistan, and Tajik in Tajikistan. It is also widely spoken in other parts of the Central Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia. Among the neighbouring empires and nations, Persian was considered a prestigious cultural language and over the course of centuries it influenced many of these neighbouring languages, such as the Turkic languages in Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia, neighboring Iranian languages, as well as Armenian, Georgian, and Indo-Aryan languages, especially Urdu. It also exerted some influence on Arabic, particularly the Bahrani and Iraqi dialects of Arabic. Persian was the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing, and the writing of poetry in Persian was established as a court tradition in many eastern courts. Persian and Russian have also influenced one another, not to the same extent as the aforementioned languages, but the influence and similarities are noteworthy. Historical contacts between Russia and Iran have consisted of collaboration and rivalry. Iranians and Russians have a very long history of geographic, economic, and socio-political interaction.
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Bahador (@BahadorAlast): / bahadoralast
Bogdan (@bogdanbandalak):
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Sara (@sara_sohrabi):
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25 мар 2018
