Why did Iranians adopt the Arabic alphabet?

Have you ever wondered why #Farsi adopted the #Arabic alphabet? Was Farsi written even before Islam? Are Arabic and Farsi related?
I explain everything in this episode!

Research, script and voice over:  @nofridaynightplans  
2D & 3D animations:  @nofridaynightplans  
French & Arabic translations:  @nofridaynightplans  
Automatic translation for Farsi

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Sources
- https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan...
- https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan...
- https://www.iranicaonline.org/article...
- Medium: the-history-of-the-persian-written-in-arabic-letters
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pahl...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi...
- https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/ar...
- https://www.omniglot.com/writing/mper...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasania...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Bab...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeme...

Music
- "Energizing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
- Indian Cinemascope - Hanu Dixit

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Maps
1) https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/p...
2) https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/v...

Contents

00:00 Intro
00:24 Are Farsi and Arabic linguistically related?
01:55 Old Persian
05:20 Avestan
06:20 The Sassanian Empire and Pahlavi
07:18 What is Pahlavi?
08:40 Adoption of the Arabic script
10:01 Conclusions

Thank you for watching!

#persian #persianlanguage #arabiclanguage #linguistics #history #historyfacts #arabicalphabet #pahlavi #iran