Can Iranians understand Middle Persian, the Sassanid Era (3rd-7th Century) Persian language? Hope you enjoy this video as we take a look at the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) language, which was the official language of the Sassanid Empire, who referred to themselves as the "Empire of Iranians". Although for over 4 centuries they ruled over a vast territory which at its greatest extent encompassed most of the Middle East, Anatolia, and the Caucasus, and stretched into North Africa, Central and South Asia, the Sassanid Empire collapsed during the early Muslim conquests in the 7th century, and with it Middle Persian eventually evolved into modern Persian. This change was, however, very gradual, and for centuries after the fall of the Sassanids, Middle Persian was still in use, and continues to be used today by Zoroastrian priests for religious purposes. By the 10th century, the language had experienced clear changes, such as the initial "w" sounds changing to either "b" or "g", changes in the verbal system, Arabic loanwords being used instead of many Aramaic loanwords and native Persian terms, as well as the substitution of the Arabic script for the Pahlavi Middle Persian script, a change which was actually initiated by a native Iranian dynasty, the Tahirids. So how well can Persian speakers today can understand the language of their ancestors from over 15 centuries ago? Mahya's KZfaq channel: kzfaq.info/love/Jxooc6Ivso_YAQF7ttVFmQ Mahya's Instagram: instagram.com/mahya_polyglot/ Naghmeh's Instagram: instagram.com/naghmehnameh/ If you speak a language that we have not featured before and would like to participate in a future video please follow and message us on Instagram: instagram.com/bahadoralast/

you Persians are really rich in culture. best regards from a German. khodahafez

What a cool and unique video! Iran's history and Persian culture is so rich. Much love and huge repsect for our ancient rivals and current friends from Greece 🇬🇷

i'm berber from Algeria and big respect to persians who protected their language from arabization

Good luck! Salam from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 to our persian friends 🇮🇷

That's really cool! Armenian vocabulary has been influenced by Middle Iranian languages, particularly Parthian! It would be so cool if you can do a comparison between Armenian of today with Parthian language! Love and respect for our lovely Iranian neighbors from Armenia 🇦🇲🇮🇷

"Fradom" in Middle Persian is cognate with Sanskrit prathama, we are using in Hindi today प्रथम (pratham). You said it correctly sir. Fantastic connection.

The Middle Persian language is awesome! Love Iran and farsi from China! 🇨🇳 ❤ 🇮🇷

خیلی خوبه که مردم دنیا رو با زبانمون آشنا میکنید

As an Armenian, seeing written Middle Persian/Parsig and Parthian/Pahlavi is like seeing a random stranger in the street and assuming they are of the same or similar background as me...like seeing a long lost cousin you never met. Especially when I see the "-agan/-akan" suffixes (I know my fellow Kurds can relate to this real well haha). You got to love and appreciate the influence Iranian languages like Parsig/Pahlavi have had on Armenian. It just makes it more interesting and fun for us linguist geeks. I remember my first discovery of these cultural/linguistic relationships. Fell in love and have been obsessed with Iranic studies ever since. Wish I had more Iranian friends, it's a blessing. Great work & content as always guys! Afarin Bahador jan, xaste nabashid.

I wanna thank 1. Zarathustra 2. Vologases l of Parthian 3. Ardashir l of Sassanid 4. Ferdowsi for keeping this amazing language alive through History.

As a Kurd it wasn't really hard for me to understand most of it,and "EZ"is still being used in kurmanji Kurdish

We really need more videos like this. So good to see the ancient Persian words that are still used. Thank you guys

In Bulgarian - (even in 21th century) we tell "I" - аз (Az), "Me" - мен (man).

This channel is from the beautiful part of this world. Much love from Turkey ❤️😊

Please continue this series Bahador jan! We need to understand the origins of our present Parsi!

As a native Armenian speaker, I could understand khrad (խրատ - khrat), which means advice in Armenian. The siffux -agan (ական - akan) is also familiar to me. We use it like the -ian or -al in English. Ex: իրանական բժշկական դպրոց Iranakan bzhshkakan dprots - Iranian medical school.

Pouya spared us the difficulties of the Pahlavi script. Pahlavi script was based on Aramaic, and some words were written in Aramaic but read in Persian (e.g. write "mlka", read "shah"). In some stages of the script, some letters were indistinguishable. Persian changed very slowly. Old Armenian, which was first written in the 400s, borrowed lots of words from Middle Persian. Old Persian, which had its own cuneiform alphabet, was spoken centuries earlier during the Achaemenid dynasty.

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INTRIGUING WORK BY AMAZING PEOPLE. My late father was a professor of Chemical Engineering at Tehran university and was one of the original leaders and participants in the Farhangestan Melli Zaban back in Pahlavi's time. He would have been so proud of you guys. Bravo Pooya & Bahador!!

Bahador. This is the best video you have made so far. 10/10 bravo. This takes so much knowledge to produce. Your content is getting more and more complex.

I really enjoyed your perfect conversation. I'd been actually waiting for it since I subscribed your channel , 2 years ago . Thank you for sharing the great content you've ever made. Hamed, a polyglot ever enthusiastic for learning and training

I like the way he tells us the history of the language in addition to just making the comparisons 👍.

This is awesome. Great work, mate!

Pahlavi, the script of Middle Persian, was originally referred to the language spoken by the Parthians, and later came to be applied to the script used to write Middle Persian, which was derived from the Aramaic alphabet. Middle Persian Pahlavi script was derived from Aramaic independently, although Inscriptional MP Pahlvi is similar to Inscriptional Parthian Pahlavi. Book Pahlavi, the most common form of the script, was a complicated writing system with 12 characters representing 24 sounds. The matter was further complicated by the wide-spread use of ligatures, heterograms, and attaching of the letters. One unique feature of Pahlavi orthography is the use of Aramaic "heterograms" to render many common Pahlavi words. For example, the Pahlavi word for "king", shah, was written as MLKA, recognizable as the Aramaic word for "king" cognate with contemporary Arabic malik, but it was intended to be pronounced as shah. Using heterograms was also applied to verbs, where Pahlavi person-number agreement and tense markers were appended to an Aramaic third-person masculine singular present verb. Many extremely common nouns, verbs, and even function words were subject to heterographic writing. In its later forms, attempts were made to improve the alphabet by adding diacritics and signs to the letters. Since no actual Pahlavi book has survived from the Sasanian period, we are left with medieval copies and have no way of knowing whether these improvements happened under the Sasanian rule or in the post-Islamic era. After the fall of the Sasanians, the Pahlavi script, as well as Middle Persian language, was preserved by the Zoroastrian clergy and scholars and was used to compose new pieces of literature.

This was the best video you've ever uploaded i believe🤯

This video is great I really enjoy watching and learning about the middle Persian and it was the first time I saw that there are similarities between Pahlavi Parsi and German, it really blowed my mind and it's great tbh 😅 Anyways thanks a billion for this great video I really loved it hope to see more content like this 😊❤️💙

Thank you so much: I have been asking to see a video like this for so long. It seems to me the same difference from Modern to Ancient Greek! Wow!

This is a great concept, Bahador can really expand on this on different languages lost to history

Finally,was looking for a video like this

Omg Bahador! You did it wow! Afarin!!! Amazing vid very educational and insightful

Cool video, I think it would be even more interesting if you added also text in modern Persian language and read it, to show how Persian evolved throughout the history. Greetings from Poland!

I am impressed with Iranians so much because I have not come across many nations who are this much aware, connected to and passionate about their ancient culture and history.

Love middle Persian Pahlavi Parsig and how it sounds. We should throw foreign words from our language and get more from this language

Nicely done folks! That's very cool 👍👍

This was super interesting, please do another one on Old Persian, that would be fun to watch and guess as you go along

Iranians have such a long history, i deeply respect that. :)

BIG LOVE FROM ROMANIA♥️♥️

This was very educational. I had never heard Middle Persian before.

Thanks for the wonderful video ,

This was wonderful, Bahador. Some of my research on some imaginative 20th century Latin American literature touches on Persian history, and literature, starting from the name of Bardiya on the Behistun Inscription, and includes missing texts, like Hazar Afsana which became the Thousand and One Nights in an Arabic translation, and also the Avesta and the Shahnameh, and other 11th and 12th century Persian poetry. To read about Pahlavi is one thing but to hear it pronounced is a special treat. For the past few weeks I have been on this topic for quite a few hours a day, so this video came at a perfect time. Thank you!

Persian really hasn't changed much compared to other languages like English or French. Some languages are completely different now from 500 years ago. P.S: there's a war between northern and Southern Indians in the replay section not related to my comments, carry on with your scrolling :)

Very interesting video, thank you Bahador 🤗

بهادر جان باعث افتخاره که این کلیپ ها رو میبینم. واقعا تاریخ و فرهنگ ایران یک چیزه جذاب و بی نهای هست که باید بهش افتخار کرد. تاریخ و ادبیات ما در دنیا به عنوان یکی از ارزش مند ترین ها ثپت نام شده. هممون باید به این مشهوریتمون افتخار کنیم. زنده باد!

Wow I was really surprised as as a caspi gilak it's very similar to our language here Nice job bahador love your videos

Beautiful 🥰 video!

Omg! The best time cuz I just was thinking about that and willing content about Pahlawi language

Great video ❤️

آفرین بچه ها 🤩 فوق العاده بود 👏👏

I really enjoyed it

Thanks for this. Can you do one with Achaemenid Persian as well please? It’s amazing how much of the zend-avastha i can understand but very little of pehlavi and modern

I love your content. I hope the video is in Arabic and Russian and some words of Arabic origin are similar ♥️♥️♥️

Wow amazing! I love and adore the Persian language and its history. Middle Persian actually has many Aramaic loanwords the way modern Persian has Arabic loanwords. Also interesting enough, the Middle Persian script was a derived from the Aramaic script. It's great to see the preservation of the language after so many centuries.

I am actually astounded by the fact that Middle Persian here is often compared to German, also the consonant clusters.

All languages are fluid, taking on new words, meanings and in transition all the time throughout their existence. However, it's amazing to see how some languages preserve so much to be able to have a good degree of intelligibility after so many centuries!

Can't wait for part 2

It's even easier to see the cognates of the pronoun "Az" in Balto-Slavic languages, especially in South Slavic where it's identical or almost identical.

بهادر جان عالی بود بازم درباره پارسی پهلوی ویدئو بسازید هنوز خیلیا نمیدونن که چقدر با زبان امروز نزدیکه و ما خیلی راحت میتونیم حتی جایگزین کنیم 🤗😍

Good to know about middle Persian language

خیلی جالب بود. من هم حدس می‌زدم . دستتون درد نکنه.

Thank you for this program. It was educational. Will it be possible for you to compare Parthian-Pahlavi with the classical Persian that we speak today in Iran as well?

I love the Flag of *Sassanid Empire* (Derafsh Kaviani) Love Êranshâhr from Hindugan/Hindustan

both you girls are amazing to be able to guess these OMG LOL. well done :)

Interesting thank you

Would love to see stuff like this for other languages, maybe even English! Though I can't help but wonder if Middle English might still be too similar to modern English for this purpose, and/or Old English too dissimilar to modern English for said purpose as well. (And I say this knowing that only the earliest varieties of Old English were even contemporary to the latter part of the Middle Persian period)

Honestly such a cool video, though I think Pouya could have picked some simpler ones too haha. It seemed like he didn't wanna have any terms that are too easy.

Good job Bahador and everyone. Many of the Pahlavi words and verbs still exist in kurdish, tati, baluchi and taleshi. For example "EZ" still exist in kurdish. Also we can find them in southern dialect of persian, like shirazi and bandari. Please make more videos about this subject. Like any other language lover, I'm looking forward to your next video.

بعضی قسمتاش واقعا سخت بود. افرین! شما باعث افتخار ما هستید بانوان پر استعداد ایران

Good to hear... Made with Dravidan language also..

Having studied both the grammar of Middle Persian language and Modern Persian language I can totally admit that it's is understandable quite easily. Depends of course on the occasion and the text...

Would be great to have a video on Sanskrit and Middle Persian, lots of cognates one would imagine..

Keep going bro. 👌👌👌👌🌹🌹❤️

Wonder if you'd be able to organize this with Ancient Greek 😁🇬🇷

I love the think and interest about the our roots. As a Kurd ,i wish we had a opportunity see more connections between other Iranic nations like Persians/Pashtons/Osets/etc. It is great job Bahador! Love your videos!

excellent,,,,enjoyed and thank you 🙏🙏💚💚💚👏☺☺☺,,,,, my family language and that of our city is phahlavi or middle Persian 💚❤

مرسی از کارات❤❤❤

Bahador this video was awesome but our friend has chosen the weirdest Parsig texts. He could use "Karnamag e Ardaxshir" or "Andarze khusrawe Kavadan". Those texts have more texts of common scence. This all was pure zoroastrian text and talking about words that are not common today. If he chose first paragraph of ''Karnamag e Ardaxshir" the persian speaking people would feel more connected to the language of theirs ancestors. BTW the video was so good and I thank you for this.

Persia's influence on central and south Asia cannot be overstated.

AH LOVE this!! ❤️

It would be interesting to see this for more languages.

Salom az Samarqand ba hama man ham bisyor kalimaro fahmidam

Wow it's interesting. I did not know that the difference is that much between the present-day Iranian and old Persian. Great nation, amazing culture.

Very nice program on the intersting Topic of " Comparative Linguistics" . Old Avestan is very similar to Sanskrit. Sassanian Persian changed after the 7 th Century AD ie 1400 years back

To some extent I can understand it (words) sometime it gives similar meaning some time it gives related meaning like Nang (honour) Graan (Difficult) Karem/Kawom (Doing) [Present Continuous/ Present Indefinite and can also be used for Future just by adding Ba/bay/Bayed etc] And many more words to write it here but the comment will become long to read. Edit: Am a Pashtun

I think Poya avoided actual simple sentences and he went straight to tough ones to make it interesting because so much of Middle Persian has remained exactly the same ... my guess is he probably wanted to avoid making it simple in case it gets boring 😂 So I'm impressed with Mahya and Naghmeh's ability to figure them out. It makes so much sense after you know the meaning 😂

Very interesting

You should do episode of language comparison beetween Chinese vs Latin

عشق، 《مِهر》 .... هَم‌سَنگ‌های ایرانیِ سَرِه. واژگانِ ناایرانی در سوی راست، .... واژگان پارسیِ ایرانی در سوی چپ: عشق = مِهر، دل‌دادگی، دل‌باختگی، شیفتگی، شیدایی عاشق = دِلباخته، دل‌داده، شیفته، شِیدا، والِه، دلشُده، پاکباز، بیدِل معشوق = دِلبَر، دِلدار، دِل‌سِتان، دِل‌آرام، یار، جانان، دوستگان قلب = دِل* *آنچه که می‌تپد دِل ❤ است. ولی آنچه که جای روده و گَدِه (معده) است، شکم است. نَفَس = دَم | جان، روان عاشق شدن = دل باختن، دل سپردن، شیفته شدن، پاک باختن دورانِ عشق‌ورزی = دورانِ مِهروَرزی عاشقانه = مِهرآمیز رمانتیک = مِهرآمیز حس کردن = سُهیدن (sOhidan)، سُوهیدن، دریافتن حس/احساس = سُهِش (sOhEsh)، دَریابش، دریافت، اَندَریافت احساس (عاطفه) = مِهر، مهربانی | شور عاطفه = مِهر، مهربانی، مِهروَرزی عاطفی (رفتارِ کسی) = مِهروَرز، مهربان، نَرم‌خو محبت = مِهروَرزی، مهربانی، مِهر، دوستی مجرد = بی‌هَمسَر، تَک، تنها علاقه = دِلبَستِگی، دوست داشتن علاقه‌مند = دِلبَسته، دوست‌دار تمایل داشتن = گَرایِش داشتن، خواهان بودن عزیز = گرامی، گران، گرانمایه، ارجمند، پُراَرزِش عزیز = نازنین، جانَم، جان، دُردانه، یکی یک دانه (یکی یه دونه) عزیزم = جانَم، جانانَم، نازنینَم، دلدارَم، نورِچَشم لطف = مِهر، مِهربانی، نَرمی، نیکی، نیکویی، بخشش لطفاً = مِهر وَرزیده، خواهشمندم، خواهشمند است لطف دارید = مِهر دارید، مهربان هستید حیا = شَرم، آزَرم با حیا = آزَرمین، آزَرمگین، سَربِزیر، سَربِراه، شَرمین، با شَرم خجالت = شَرم، آزَرم، کَم‌رویی خجالتی = کَم‌رو، آزَرمگین، آزَرمین متین = سنگین، آرام، اُستوار، بُردبار، خوددار متواضع = فُروتَن، سَربِزیر با تربیت = با اَدب، پَروَریده، پَرهیخته، با فرهنگ نجیب = پاکدامن، نیک‌نِهاد، پاک‌نِهاد، نیک‌گوهر، وارَسته، بُزُرگوار، پارسا عفت = پاکدامنی، پارسایی، پاکی لطیف = نرم، نازک ظریف = باریک، شکننده، لاغر، ناز، نازُک، نازنین، نازُک اَندام، نازُک تَن ملیح = بانَمَک، نَمَکین، گَندُمگون، گیرا، دل‌نشین جذاب = گیرا، دلرُبا، تودِل برو، خوشآیند، دِلپَذیر عکس (تصویر) = نِگارِه، فَرتور (fArtUr)، رُخش* (rOxš) *(رُخش، در "لغت فُرس اسدی"، بجای عکسِ عربی آمده. با رَخشِ اسب یکی نشود) چَت کردن (chat) = گَپیدن، گَپ زدن چت روم (Chatroom) = گَپسَرا تلفن کردن = زنگ زدن تماس = پَرماس (pArmās) تماس گرفتن = پَرماسیدن صحبت/حرف = سخن، گَپ، گفتگو، دَردِ دِل جالب = شایان، برجسته، کِشَندِه (kEšandeh)، با کِشِش، اَندیش گیر، نِگَر اَنگیز جالب توجه = شایان، شایانِ نِگَرِش، درخورِ نِگَرِش، کِشَندِه، برجسته، نِگَریستنی چه جالب! = چه خوب!، چه بامَزِه! تقاضا کردن = درخواستن، درخواست کردن، خواهش کردن اصرار کردن = پافشاری کردن، پافشردن، پیله کردن، پاپیچ شدن التماس کردن = لابه کردن، لابیدن رابطه = پیوند، بَستِگی قول دادن = پیمان بستن قول و قرار = پیمان قسم خوردن = سوگند خوردن فداکاری = از خود گذشتگی فدا کردن = از خود گذشتن وفاداری = پیمان داری، پیمان پایی، پایبندی وفا کردن = پایدار ماندن و■■■■■■□□□□□□ بی‌وفایی = سُست مِهری، پیمان‌شکنی، ناپایداری خیانت = پیمان‌شکنی، نارویی، نارو زدن، ناراستی، نادرست کاری، دشمن یاری ناراحت = آزُرده، دِلخور، دِلگیر، اَندوهگین، اَفسُرده، نَژَند، گِرِفتِه، پَریشان، آشفته، شوریده ناراحت (خوی و رفتار) = جوشی، زودرنج، تُرشرو، اَخمو احساساتی (رفتاری) = نازُک سِرِشت، نازُک نِهاد | پُرشور، زودرنج قهر = رنجیده، دِلخور متنفر = بیزار، دِلزَده غم = اندوه غمگین = اندوهگین غمگین کردن = آزُردن، رنجاندن، دِلِ (کسی را) شکستن عذاب دادن = آزُردن، رنجاندن بی عاطفه = نامهربان، سنگدل، خُشک، سرددِل معذرت می‌خواهم = ببخشید، پوزش میخواهم جداً = به راستی، به درستی، بی‌شوخی قبول کردن = پذیرفتن *در پاسخ به پوزش خواهی، به جای: عیبی ندارد، اشکالی ندارد، طوری نیست، مسئله‌ای نیست وو ...، می‌توان گفت: • باشد! • ‏خُب! • ‏بسیار خُب! • ‏چیزی نیست سوءتفاهم = بد برداشت، بد دریافت، بد دَریابی، کَژ دَریابی، کج دَریابی هدیه = پیشکِش، چشم‌روشنی، اَرزانی سوغات/هدیه (از سفر) = ره‌آورد، ارمغان کادو = پیشکِش، چشم‌روشنی تقدیم کردن = پیش‌کش کردن مهم = مِهَند* (mEhAnd)، بااَرزش، برجسته، شایان، گرانمایه *(مِهَند=مِه+ند ... مِه و کِه = بزرگ و کوچک، بالا و پایین. ... مِهتر و کِهتر = بزرگتر و کوچکتر ..... "ند" پسوند، مانندِ: گَزَند رَوَند 'مانَند') درک کردن = دریافتن، پی بردن فهمیدن = دریافتن تفاهم = هم‌دِلی، هم‌اَندیشی موافق = همراه، هم‌اندیش، هم‌دل، یکدِل، هم‌دید، هم‌نِگَر، هم‌دوش، هم‌رأی، همساز موافقت کردن = پذیرفتن، هم‌دل بودن، همساز بودن ا☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ عقد (در ازدواج) = پیمانِ زناشویی مراسم عقد = گواه‌گیری، گواه‌گیران، آیینِ پیوند، آیینِ پیمان ازدواج = زناشویی، پیوندِ زناشویی، پیمانِ زناشویی، همسر گرفتن، جفت کردن، جفت شدن عروس = اَروس*، آروس *اَروس، پارسی است، از ریشهٔ اوستاییِ اَروش و اَروشه. عرب آنرا وام گرفته و کرده عروس، و به خودمان برگردانده. عروسی = اَروسی حجله = اَروس خانه مبارک = فَرخُنِده، خُجَسته، هُمایون تبریک = شادباش مرسی = سپاس ممنون = سپاس، سپاسگزار مچکرم = سپاس، سپاسگذارم، سپاسدارم تشکر = سپاس خیلی ممنون = بسیار سپاس خوشحال* = شاد، خُرسَند، خشنود، خوشهال حال ==== هال* *هال، از بُنیاد، پارسی است، و عرب آن‌را وام گرفته و کرده 'حال'. و هیچ پیوندی ندارد با واژگانِ عربیِ احاله استحاله محال تحویل تَحَوُل مُحَوَل و ده‌ها واژهٔ دیگر که همگی از ریشهٔ عربیِ ح.ا.ل یا ح.و.ل درست شده‌اند به چمِ "دگرگونی" و "از این دست به آن دست شدن". هالِ (حال) پارسیِ ایرانی، هم‌خانواده است با واژگانِ هِندواروپایی مانندِ Heil در آلمانی، و Whole و Health در انگلیسیِ نُوین، و Hāl در انگلیسیِ کُهَن. هالِ (حالِ) پارسیِ ایرانی، چمِ (معنیِ) روشنی دارد: چگونگی، درستی و آرامشِ تَن یا روان. • دلش گشت پُر آتش از مِهرِ زال از او دور شد خورد و آرام و "هال" (فردوسی) ا●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● از به کارگیریِ زبانِ کج و کولهٔ آخوندی، تا آنجا که می‌شود پرهیز کنیم. زبانِ پارسیِ ایرانیِ سَرِه، هم توانا است، و هم زیبا و ساده. درود بر سَرِه گویان و سَرِه گُستَران، ... هر کس به اندازهٔ تَوان.

There were a lot of "Germanic" sounding words - shared ancient Indo-European roots?

I understood 90 percent of all the sentences as a native Iranian who lives in Iran speaks standard Persian ! I don't know why did they even struggled in some sentences ?! It was soo easy that it was as if they are struggling with understanding modern Persian !!!! Perhaps they just forgot some Persian words since both of them are no longer in Iran (which is weird) Or perhaps they just couldn't find the right English equivalent of the words (which would explain why did they even max or struggled to understand at times) Great job as always bahador ;)

Great topic. Audio is tough though.

Great sir. I want to point out that Persian has big influence on Bengali and dates back to the 13th century and assimilation of Persian literary trends into the Indian cultural landscape. Even some Iranians settled as Ulamas, teachers, and poets in Bengal. The result was a growing popularity Persian tales among Bengali people, such as that of Laili and Majnu, Yusuf and Julekha, or the works of Ferdousi, Jami, and Nizami Ganjavi, and an absorption of Persian words into the Bengali language. Persian remained the official state language of Bengal for 600 years, until the British changed it to English in the 19th century.

i would go on about writing a detailed erreta (e.g. how in pahlawi the ā sound is a long 'a' and not close to 'o' like in modern persian, or that the w sound is closer to a consonantal 'u' like how east afghans and arabs pronounce waw etc.) but the guy did a great job, and going into accurate phonetics would have made the thing even weirder for modern iranians.. i think the problem was that you selected sentences from old texts like mēnõg-i xrad and bundahišn that include not only ancient forms of words but ancient concepts too..

I'm in love with that lady Naghmeh. She's so perfect. Beautiful, smart, and you can tell she's very nice and sweet.

We need more videos like this, only with more polish.

I'm Pakistani, I love Persian and in old days Persian and Arabic was compulsory to study in schools etc as our Holy book Quran is in Arabic so every Pakistani and every Muslim know how to read Arabic till date, it was a symbol of education in our system..♥️🇵🇰

Love this episode. Some words are in Urdu as well. She was right that does sound like Urdu 😄

Amazing! So many words that are similar to Sanskrit, even more so than say Latin or English. Vistar is expansion, growth in Sanskrit even in the present say version. The Arabic conquest changed Persian a lot I am guessing.

عالی بود

I wonder how much and how fluid zorastrians in Bharat (India) and Iran are in avestan language, since they do their prayers and rituals in that language as far as I know. The difficulty would be to find a zoroastrian to join this channel 😅 Thank you Bahador for all your interesting topics. It is nice to see how your work has evolved from your first videos to know, may blessings shower upon you and your family 🙏