▲ 195 ▼ Iran claims victory, says it forced US to accept 10-point plan (www.cnn.com) submitted 7 months ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/world 28 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (3 children) How do you say “taco” in Farsi? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) Google translate doesn't have Farsi, but it gives the same transliteration for Dari, Persian, and whatever it means by just "Arabic" (MSA?): تاکو permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) I don't know why Google translate doesn't clarify, but Persian is Farsi my dude. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Fwiw, Persian/Farsi, Dari, and Tajik are all closely related, even intelligible, variants of Persian, and Indo-European, so, related to Hindi and European languages. Arabic, or, rather, Modern Standard Arabic, has a bunch of variants spoken throughout MENA, is a semitic language, and is related to Hebrew and Ethiopian. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) Google translate doesn't have Farsi, but it gives the same transliteration for Dari, Persian, and whatever it means by just "Arabic" (MSA?): تاکو permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) I don't know why Google translate doesn't clarify, but Persian is Farsi my dude. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Fwiw, Persian/Farsi, Dari, and Tajik are all closely related, even intelligible, variants of Persian, and Indo-European, so, related to Hindi and European languages. Arabic, or, rather, Modern Standard Arabic, has a bunch of variants spoken throughout MENA, is a semitic language, and is related to Hebrew and Ethiopian. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) I don't know why Google translate doesn't clarify, but Persian is Farsi my dude. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago Fwiw, Persian/Farsi, Dari, and Tajik are all closely related, even intelligible, variants of Persian, and Indo-European, so, related to Hindi and European languages. Arabic, or, rather, Modern Standard Arabic, has a bunch of variants spoken throughout MENA, is a semitic language, and is related to Hebrew and Ethiopian. permalink fedilink source parent