| Persian In English we should always refer to the language of Iran as Persian | The Kurdish we're talking about in this article is Sorani, which is spoken in Iraq and is the mother language of Imadeddin, the author of this article |
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| Similarities and Differences In this article we will only discuss the differences between Arabic, Persian, and Kurdish | What makes Persian difficult to identify at first glance is that Persian shares a lot of similar words with both Kurdish and Arabic, and some words are even written exactly the same way |
In fact, Persian and Kurdish are Indo-European languages and have more in common with English and Greek than they do with Arabic.
23| Central Kurdish Sorani First, we should clarify that we're talking about Central Kurdish and not other forms of Kurdish there are several Kurdish languages | The Arabic script is used in many more languages, major ones of which include Pashtu and Urdu, but we'll leave those for a future article |
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| Many letters in the Arabic alphabet look the same, but only differ by adding one or more dots above or below a letter | This is the English name |
Otherwise, it is a fun task to be able to rely on your own instinct to determine which language something is written in.
10| Despite the similarity, you should also be able to notice striking differences such as vocabulary and sentence length | This is a clear sign of Arabic language |
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| You can click on the icon to choose between Arabic and Kurdish |
Much like most European languages use the Latin script, each language has a few special letters that are unique to itself and this is true for these languages as well.
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