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by redwood 1746 days ago
Is it Arabic? They have a shared script
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danans 1746 days ago
It is Arabic. The lead lines are "'anaa indraa", which is Arabic for "I am Indra". In Farsi it would be "man indra hastam"

The scripts are related but Farsi has extra letters for sounds not present in Arabic, and it has a totally different and unrelated grammar.

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uncomputation 1746 days ago
It is Arabic. They have a shared script (mostly) but that’s like saying French, Italian, and English are mutually intelligible because they share the Latin script.
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