External Influences
There are many loanwords in the Persian language, mostly coming from Arabic, English, French, and the Turkic languages.
Persian has likewise influenced the vocabularies of other languages, especially Arabic, Indo-Iranian languages and Turkic languages. Many Persian words have also found their way into the English language.
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“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
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