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Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Persian is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Persian involves.
Lingo7 does not read Persian yet: the app has no Persian dictionary, audio or books, and its reader still has to be mirrored for right-to-left text. Persian is on the shortlist of languages to add. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Persian is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Persian would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: Iran, Afghanistan (as Dari), Tajikistan (as Tajik)
The Persian alphabet has 32 letters, and as in Arabic most of them join their neighbours and change shape with their position. Short vowels are not written: کتاب (ketab, book) shows k, t, a and b, and the reader supplies the e. Several letters share one sound because they come with Arabic loanwords, four for z (ز ذ ض ظ) and three for s (س ص ث), so reading a word is easier than spelling one you have only heard.
The ezafe, the short -e that links a noun to its adjective or its owner, is usually not written either. کتاب من is read ketab-e man (my book) with nothing on the page for the -e, and seeing where an ezafe belongs is one of the main skills of reading Persian. An invisible joiner, the half space, keeps prefixes and endings apart from the stem without a full space, as in میروم (I go) and کتابها (books).
Books, newspapers and the news use written Persian. Dialogue in modern fiction and much of social media spells out colloquial speech instead, which shortens many words: آن (that) becomes اون, and میخورد (he eats) becomes میخوره. Dari texts from Afghanistan use the same alphabet, so a reader of Iranian Persian can read them with some new vocabulary.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Persian needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Persian is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Persian dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Persian book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
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From the grammar more than the page. An ezafe links a noun to each word that follows and describes it, so in کتاب بزرگ من (my big book) every word but the last takes it: ketab-e bozorg-e man. After a word ending in a or u it is pronounced -ye and written with ی.
Yes, noticeably. Books and news use the written standard, while everyday speech, based on Tehran usage, turns a long a before n or m into u (nan, bread, becomes nun) and changes verb endings. Fiction and social media often write those spoken forms, so a reader meets both.
Because it kept the spelling of Arabic loanwords. ز ذ ض ظ are all pronounced z in Persian and س ص ث are all s, although they are different sounds in Arabic. Reading is not much affected, but spelling a word you have only heard means learning which letter it takes.