Similarities Between Romanian and Persian

Romanian and Persian are both Indo-European languages, a family of many related languages and dialects. All Indo-European languages are descendants of a prehistoric language, reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European. In this video, Aryana (Persian speaker from Iran) and Darius (Romanian speaker from Romania) demonstrate some of the commonalities between the two languages with a list of words and sentences. The words in this video consist of words having a common Proto-Indo-European root, as well as some words which are later borrowings. Once again, we just want to thank those who took part in the latest Instagram poll and voted for this video! Be sure to follow us on Instagram and vote in the next poll! If you live in Toronto and would like to participate in a future video, reach us on Instagram as well: My Instagram page (@BahadorAlast):   / bahadoralast   Shahrzad’s Instagram page (@Shahrzad.Pe):   / shahrzad.pe   The Persian language (Farsi) is an ancient language which has had a huge amount of impact on other languages and cultures, mainly in the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia. Persian is classified as one of the Western Iranian languages, Persian holds official status is Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and spoken by a significant population of Uzbekistan who are native Persian speakers. Persian has strongly influenced many different languages, including numerous Turkic languages, as well as well as Armenian, Georgian, and many languages in the Indian subcontinent. Persian has a long history of literature and it was notable for being the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing. The Persian language has also influenced the Arabic language, although the impact of Arabic on Persian has been higher. But the influence of Persian in the Muslim world has been strong since the early days of Islam. It was even established as a court tradition instead of Arabic under many ruling Muslim dynasties. Romanian (limba română) is a Balkan Romance language within the Italic branch of the Indo-European family. It is spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova where it is the official language, in addition to being one of the official languages of the European Union. Having evolved from different Vulgar Latin dialects, Romanian is a part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages. Within the group, the language is called Daco-Romanian in order to distinguish it from Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian.