Comments on: English Iran’s Lingua Franca

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:42:13 +0000

Within Iran there are two or three different dialects of Persian spoken. However, only a little over half of Iranians speak any dialect of Persian as a first language. Other languages spoken as first languages include other members of the Iranian family, Luri and Lari, various Turkic languages, Kurdish, Baluchi, and Arabic.

By: Furhead

Furhead — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:00:13 +0000

Are there a lot of dialects of Persian? That's apparently the reason English is so popular in India, where the dialects are so different that they often can't communicate in Hindi.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:24:52 +0000

What's funny too, I'm studying Farsi, and for a lot of the more modern phraseology there's a heavy French influence - the explanation I got was that it was an anti-western/UK thing.

How things change...