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Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts  مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

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Abstract

This study tackles some of the most important historical stages of Persian language under the dominance of regimes that governed Iran during different periods from the past to the present. Also, the study addresses how the nature of the regime and its political orientation have influenced the Persian language, its vocabulary, grammar, syntax, morphology, and literature. The study deals with the ancient Persian language (Pastan), which was used before the Islamic conquest and then the middle Persian (Miyan) which was used till the Arabs and Muslims invaded the Persian Empire, and the modern Persian language (the contemporary Persian language. The study provides different examples, indications and models showing the influence of the ruling regime on the Persian language in its different historical stages. Also, the research demonstrates the different languages that affected Persian such as Arabic, Turkish, French and the languages of the neighboring or foreign countries. The study includes Persian prose texts from the above-mentioned periods that reflect the influence of the regimes on the language by borrowing foreign words. Moreover, the study showsthe delay in the codification of the Persian language and its dictionary which opens the doors widely for all these forces to influence the Persian language.

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