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1、TheWritingSystemIntroductionThePersianalphabet,likethealphabetsofmanyMuslimnations,isbasedonthe28-letteralphabetofArabic.Ithas32lettersandiswrittenfromrighttoleft.FouroftheselettersaredevisedexclusivelyforPersian.Weshallseetheseletterslater.ThePersianalphabetdoesnotusecapital
2、letters.Itdoes,however,useamodifiedversionoftheWesternpunctuationsystem.Unlikethealphabet,thePersiannumbersarewrittenfromlefttoright.PersianusesthesamefiguresasArabic,thelanguagefromwhichtheArabicnumeralsofEnglisharederived.ThePersiannumbers,thus,canbeeasilycomparedwiththosei
3、nEnglish.Weshalldiscussthenumeralslater.Inthepagesthatfollow,thealphabetisdividedintoanumberoflettergroups.Eachlettergroupusesabasicform.Afterexplainingeachbasicform,andthemannerinwhichthatformismade,individuallettersareintroducedanddiscussed.Theseindividuallettersaredifferen
4、tfromthebasicforminthenumberofdotsandthetypeofdiacriticsorsymbolsthatmayaccompanythem.Thesequenceusedintheearlierstagesofthisstudyisnotthesameasthenativese-quenceofletterstaughtintheschoolsinIran.Oncethestudentsarefamiliarwiththemech-anismforproducinglettersandletterblocks,th
5、enativesequencewillbeintroducedandmem-orized.Thislattersequenceistheoneusedinallalphabetizingoftelephonedirectories,dictionaries,andothersuchmanualsusingthePersianalphabet.TheentirePersianalphabetispresentedonthenextpage.Thelettersareintheirindepen-dentorisolatedform.Theseque
6、nceisthenativesequencementionedaboveinrelationtotheuseofdictionaries,directories,etc.Thefollowinginformationisprovidedforeachletter:the1Persiannameoftheletter,thepronunciationorsoundthattheletterrepresents,thetransliterationusedtosymbolizethatletterintheLatinscript(transliter
7、ationisanaidforthe2graduatestudentundertakingresearchusingsecondarymaterialsinthefield),andinformationastowhetheragivenletterisaconnectororanonconnector.Thesymbol(+)marksaconnector.Thesymbol(-)marksanonconnectingletter.Moreinformationonconnectorsandnonconnectorswillfollow.Bas
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