Iranians, do you think it’s easier to write Farsi with perso-arabic letters or with latin letters?
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at
6:35 am
Second question: If the government wanted to change the official way of writing Farsi in Iran from perso-arabic writing to latin letters, would you then support it?
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Latin letters are much easier. But I doubt if this government would consider changing perso-arabic letters, in the first place. I guess I would support it any way, though I’m not sure. If we change the letters then we would have problem reading the old scripts. I’m not sure if it’s advantageous or not.
I am not Iranian, but yes it will be much easier (and prettier) to use Arabic letters because they are better able to resemble sounds than latin letters
I think this Perso-Arabic letters are easier , but we should change some parts , eg . eliminate some of same letters such as : س ، ص ، ث or ز ، ذ ، ظ ، ض ,…. and add some letters for a ~> َ , e ~> ِ , o ~> ُ , it makes Persian language more easier and we can write words better , sometimes I can’t tell how I feel , but in finglish it’s easier ’cause there are "a , o ,e " in it .
I personally think it’s easier and more world friendly to write in latin letters, but mostly because I’m an Iranian who grew up in America. lol. When I went to go visit though, in Tehran there are a lot of signs that have the Latin version underneath and a lot of times in persian television they’ll do that too. But I think the perso-arabic way of the language makes it more traditional and a lot of persian culture is about traditions. Even though I don’t know how to read it, I think they should keep it perso-arabic way. When I went to turkey to visit this summer, I was expecting to see the arabic symbols but the government years ago had officially changed the writing norm to the latin letters. Made it easier to read, but I still didn’t really understand it.
Yes it is easier to write in latin letters when writing informal because we are able to write it the way we talk which is a bit hard when using perso-arabic letters, sometimes we can not write in an informal way with arabic letters as we don’t have letters for vowels in arabic script.
About your second question no I won’t support it, I like our hand writing, I like Persian calligraphy, reading in Persian script is easier and more enjoyable for me.Using Latin letters for Persian words makes it complicated and hard to understand when it comes to homophones!!
I like things just the way they are. (Don’t feel like explaining! :p)
In my opinion it’s easier to write and read Persian in Arabic alphabets. Latin letters are fine when it comes to typing.
But I partly agree with Majid, I’ve never understood what’s the point in having some letters such as zal, sad, ta, za, ghein… In Farsi we pronounce sad, sin, and se, in the same way, the same thing can be said about different type of letters for the ‘z’, ‘t’, these just work in Arabic because they have different pronunciations for each of them, but we don’t need them since we pronounce them all the same.
To answer your second question, no I won’t support it.
i am not iranian, however i was 12 generations ago, but yes, it is easier to write farsi with latin letters, but i would not support the govt. changing the script, as that will be taking a major chunk of our heritage away, that is y turkey is so confused right now, they dont kno if theyre european or asian
No & No!
hey, in my estimation, if we write in latin letters, we could enjoy and use from some benefits such as in office, of course it’s more easier to type latin letters, and at least we would start from left side so it’s much adaptation between our lingo and English( as the official lang). though we can hardly do that as far as, our president is a hard-liner, so he never do that, there’s no doubt about it. so in the end, it’s outta Q.