Coburn has for years sought to obtain transcripts of all Farsi-language broadcasts from those charged with managing the relevant radio services: the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).

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In recent months, on-site investigations of more than 100 of the roughly 2, 300 facilities in the United States, selected randomly, have been conducted under Mr. Gaubatz's supervision by trained counterintelligence professionals, many of whom have Arabic, Farsi or Urdu language skills.

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The delight in the misspelling of the name of another language is also indicative of Farsi-centric chauvinism, lovely as that language is.

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The data from the 2011 census showed the vast majority of Manchester's residents used English as their main language, but also reported significant numbers using either Urdu, Polish, Arabic, Farsi, Somali, Panjabi or Bengali as their first tongue.

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Members of a Gaelic speaking society are, apparently, still smarting after their inquiries about promoting the language in Scotland were batted away by Scottish government officials, who told them that more people speak Farsi than Gaelic in modern Scotland.

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