Nomenclature (Vαͽnα Ηραϗ)

This page is a general explanation of some of the features of 'Vαͽnα Ηραϗ'.



Language
The Achaemenid Empire has only one official language, Persian. It was selected by Darius I as most of the wealth and education was centred in 'Parsa' province, as well as a large portion of the population being centred in said province, unlike in our world where Aramaic was selected as most of the conquered could speak Aramaic. Persian in our world (Farsi  پارسی) was heavily influenced by Arabic after the Arab conquest of the Sassanians and also uses a modified Arabic script (abandoning the similar looking but totally unrelated Pahlavi script). However in ' Vαͽnα Ηραϗ', Persian was never influenced by Arabic to the degree it was as the Arabs never conquered the empire, and also the language, which was previously inscribed in cuneiform, has its own alphabet heavily based off Greek. The Achaemenids imported some foreign words into its language of course, but the most commonly used words in conversation were Iranian, followed by Greek loanwords.

The Persian alphabet is very similar to the Greek alphabet with a few differences: firstly, there are 25 letters instead of 24, and several are different from Greek to accomodate the sounds of Persian (sh, ch, for example). Secondly, they do not have the complex orthography of Ancient Greek, nor even the simplified system. Thirdly, the punctuation is a mixture of Armenian, Greek and other systems. Fourth and finally, the number system is what we would call Eastern Arabic Numerals (named Xerxesian numerals).

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