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  1. Member of the Indo-Iranian branch of the
  2. Indo-European language family and the
  3. official language of the state once known as
  4. Persia but now called Iran. Persian is known
  5. to its own speakers as Farsi, the language of
  6. the province of Fars (Persia proper). It is
  7. written in the Arabic script, from right to
  8. left, and has a large mixture of Arabic
  9. religious, philosophical, and technical
  10. vocabulary.
  11.