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Your're right Gary, I think I used my outmost chauvinism for Persian language! ;-)

In the early days of 'arabian emipre' several ministers of arabian caliphates were Iranians. For example in the time of Haroun-Al-Rashid, the Abbasid caliphate, the Iranian 'Barmaki' brothers were the closest ministers and advisors to the Caliphate.

They heavily borrowed almost every aspect of policital and financial governorship from the Sassanian Empire (the last Persian empire before the invasion of arabs)

It was the 'Barmaki' brothers who injected many old Persian laws to the new arabian empire and I think (i could be wrong again, in a highest chauvinism level) they also corrected and revised the arabic grammar somehow.

Persian language is very similiar to English and latin yes. like we have "pedar" (which is father or 'padre'), "baradar" (which is brother) and "madar" (which is mother or 'madre')

There is no G (گ)is arabic yes, although there is a J (ج)

So Gary in Farsi would be correctly گری and probably arabs will wrongly translate it as جری which actually sounds like "Jerry" or "Jary" and not "Gary"

And your opinion about the transliteration of Farsi to Latin is very interesting. In the time of Shah in the 70's, he wanted to do the same thing but I think the society wasn't still ready for that. Another thing he wanted to change was the weekly holiday. He wanted to change it from friday to sunday with the legitimate argument that different weekly holidays between Iran and west is damaging the Iranian economy.

It would be a wise move from us to change the both in a near future.

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