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  2. Al Arabiya - Wikipedia

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    farsi.alarabiya.net (Persian) urdu.alarabiya.net (Urdu) Al Arabiya ( Arabic: العربية, transliterated: al-ʿArabiyyah; meaning "The Arabic One" or "The Arab One" [a]) [citation needed] is a Saudi state-owned international Arabic news television channel. It is based in Riyadh and is a subsidiary of MBC Group. [1]

  3. Persian language - Wikipedia

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    Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision. The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian ...

  4. List of countries and territories where Persian is an ...

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    Educated Ottoman Turks spoke Arabic and Persian, as these were the main foreign languages in the pre-Tanzimat era, with the former being used for science and the latter for literary affairs. The spread of the Persian language through Rumi shrines made it the dialect of the Sufism. The Ottomans promoted and supported the Persian language.

  5. List of Iranian Arabs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Iranian Arab notable people, arranged by main profession and then birthdate. To avoid differences in nomenclature and identity, this list starts from the 16th century (early modern period), When the Safavids established a national state officially known as Persia or Iran and reasserted the Iranian identity of the region.

  6. Arabian Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The Arabian Peninsula is located in the continent of Asia and is bounded by (clockwise) the Persian Gulf on the northeast, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman on the east, the Arabian Sea on the southeast, the Gulf of Aden, and the Guardafui Channel on the south, and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait on the southwest and the Red Sea, which is ...

  7. Iranian Persian - Wikipedia

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    Iranian Persian ( Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized : Fârsi-ye Irâni ), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian ( Persian: فارسی, romanized : Fârsi ), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by minorities in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian ...

  8. Iranian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Many of them live in North America, Europe, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Australia and the broader Middle East. Other studies have estimated about 1.5 million or fewer Iranians living abroad. Many of them migrated to other countries after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

  9. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Persian and Urdu are distinct languages. Persian is classified as an Iranian language, whereas Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language. They fall under the larger grouping of the Indo-Iranian languages, and hence share some linguistic features due to common descent . However, the majority of influence from Persian is direct, through a process often ...