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Actually the "Pahlavi scripts" is just a slight modification of the Aramaic script which is also a Semitic script like the Perso-Arabic script that is currently in use in Iran. The Aramaic script on the other hand derives from the Phoenician alphabet which is also another ancient Semitic script. Us Semites were the first to use alphabets in the Middle East and the world.
The Greek and later the Latin alphabet is also derived from the Phoenician alphabet.
The earlier Cuneiform (not an alphabet) and the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were mostly Semitic too or Afro-Asiatic part of the Hamito-Semitic linguistic group.
I think it is a shame that countries that have nothing to do with the Latin alphabet are changing their alphabets to it.
Imagine Chinese or Japanese switching their old alphabets to alphabets based on the Latin scripture. That would be a crime to their culture and heritage. Besides the Latin alphabet is not really as pleasing to the eye as the Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Perso-Arabic scripture in my opinion.
The Ottoman-Turkish alphabet based on Arabic scripture with Perso-Arabic additions had not an insignificant literal history from what I am aware of.
Anyway I have a question if I may ask.
What kind of fish dishes do you eat in Iran? Any particular dish famous inside Iran? From which region and which ethnic group?
I am asking because there is a little Pizzeria where I live (Denmark) and from time to time order some food. Here I met the owner who turned out to be an Iranian and we talked for about 30 minutes. At one moment we started talking about fish dishes (yes pretty random - I know) and he mentioned a name of some dish but I forgot. I told him some famous Arab fish dishes. He was from Northern Iran around the Caspian Sea.
Are Iranians big meat lovers like we Arabs are? I imagine yes since I have noticed that Arab, Iranian and Turkish cuisine is quite similar although there are differences - at least the Arab cuisine is very diverse and big and can differ greatly from country to country.
Do the cuisine inside Iran differ greatly from region to region? Or is there a common basis?
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Hussein I believe that you are the senior Iranian member on this forum and not hostile towards us Arabs being half Arab yourself.