Small wonder then that so many Iranians regard him as the saviour of the Persian language.

因此众多伊朗人把他看作波斯语言的拯救者，也就不足为怪了。

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The Achaemenid emperors, vanquishers of the Babylonians in 539BC, spoke Persian as their native language, but pragmatically adopted Aramaic as the world’s first “interlingua”.

公元前539年，巴比伦的征服者阿契美尼德的国王将波斯语作为他们的本国语言，但是，更实用的阿拉姆语被采用为世界上第一门“国际语言”。

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She told the BBC's Persian-language service Wednesday the site will aim to answer questions on traveling and studying in the U.S..

本周三，希拉里向BBC的波斯语服务台透露，虚拟使馆的网站旨在回答到美国旅游和留学的相关问题。

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Analysts say that Iran was particularly incensed about the new British Broadcasting Corporation's Persian language TV station that was started early this year.

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There are also dozens of Persian-language channels based outside Iran, many run by expatriates.

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In September, when Rita visited Radio Ran, a Persian-language Internet radio station based in a Tel Aviv suburb, the studio was flooded with calls from Iranians around the world.

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Even after the Arab conquest, Persian remained the language of local rulers, as Iranian administrators, mullahs and traders settled in the cities of Transoxania (which covered much of today's Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan), and is the basis of the language spoken by the Tajiks today.

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