Similarities Between Persian and Georgian

Despite belonging to two different language families, due to millennia long intertwined relations, there are many shared words between Georgian and Persian. These relations go as far back as the Achaemenid (هخامنشیان) times. Centuries later, throughout history, the Persian language and culture had a lot of influence on Georgian. In fact, Georgian literary works such as Shota Rustaveli’s famous Georgian medieval epic poem, The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, Vepkhistqaosani (ვეფხისტყაოსანი), contain the names of Iranian heroes borrowed from the Shahnameh, the Persian epic poem written by Ferdowsi, considered to be the national epic of Greater Iran. In today’s video we compare some of the common terms between the two languages with a list of words and sentences. If you speak a language that we have not featured before and would like to participate in a