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CafeLitt 105: The Need for Persian Scientific Language

Wed 21 Jan 2009, 19:07, by Yusef Amiri, at Thomson House: 3650 Rue McTavish Montreal (Map)
The outline of the talks is includes:
- a quick review of the history of Persian language from the ancient time to present (10-15 minutes)
- formation of European scientific languages and terminology
- Persian Academies (Farhangestan-ha)
- the characteristics of scientific language and terminology
- our choices and why choosing Persian?
- capabilities of Persian in handling scientific needs
- the obstacles for improving Persian
- examples of successful works

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