How can you tell Persian from Arabic?

The speakers of Persian use an alphabet that is based on the Arabic script. The difference between the Persian and Arabic alphabets is the addition of a couple of letters in the former. Otherwise, they are identical. Interestingly enough Persian has also been written in Armenian script.

Is Persian closer to Arabic or English?

In reality, Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic, because it belongs to the Indo-European language family. Arabic is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Persian has around 70 million native speakers in Iran, Afganistan and Tajikistan.

What is the expressional characteristic of Persian music?

Despite their small differences, the expressional characteristic of Persian, Turkish and Arabic music are quite the same. They create an ecstatic state and they are emotional. They establish a bond between the musician and the audience; the performer expresses his/her emotions such that the audience gets the performer and joins his/her mood.

What is the difference between the pronunciation of Arabic and Persian?

A more subtle distinction in pronunciation is in emphasis and intonation. Many Arabic multi-syllabic words have their emphasis on the second-to-last syllable in a word, sometimes earlier. By contrast, Persian prefers emphasis on the last syllable. Persian speakers even change the emphasis of borrowed words from Arabic. For example

What does Persian sound like in French?

Persian at times sounds like French. In fact, many Persian migrants to France have excellent French accents and have much less trouble pronouncing French than they Persian migrants to English-speaking countries do with English. A more subtle distinction in pronunciation is in emphasis and intonation.

What percentage of Farsi words are of Arabic origin?

And if you look through a dictionary (not frequency-weighted), you’ll find that 40\% of all words useable in Farsi are of Arabic origin. Interestingly, there’s very little that goes the other way — very few Persian words that end up in Arabic (and if they do, it’s only in colloquial Arabic, not the official language).