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Persian is written in Arabic script. It has no grammatical gender or articles. Words are stressed on the last syllable. Iranian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Sindhi, Hebrew and Persian have influenced each other. Old Persian is attested from the inscriptions left by the Achaemenid dynasty (559 to 331 BC).
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