The Persian language has many different dialects. In this video we discuss some of them and go into detail about the level intelligibility of between them. The particular dialects that we are focusing on are those spoken by the native Persian speakers of Uzbekistan from the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara. We are joined today by Alisher, from Samarkand, and Ali, from Mashhad, for a short conversation about what makes the different dialects of the same language sometimes very difficult to understand.

The Persian language (Farsi) is an ancient language which has had a huge amount of impact on other languages and cultures, mainly the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia. Classified as one of the Western Iranian languages, Persian holds official status is Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, which it is also the native language of many minority Persian communities in other countries. Persian has strongly influenced many different languages, including numerous Turkic languages, as well as well as Armenian, Georgian, and many languages in the Indian subcontinent. Persian has a long history of literature and it was notable for being the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing. The Persian language has also influenced the Arabic language, although the impact of Arabic on Persian has been higher.

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