farohar
I voted yes but I felt that I had to explain why, by voting yes I don't mean that Persian language is a dieing language (that would be ridicules) Imagine a language as a snowball rolling down a mountain, as it rolls it gets bigger and swallows everything on its way, by the time it stops it may be one gigantic hill which may not have the pure content, shape or size of its origin but it is in fact, the same snowball but with richer content, languages borrow words and that is how they develop. For a language to get to a richer level there are three choices:
1- Borrow foreign words: I have nothing against borrowing words but I feel they should be reduced to 10-15% per language, meaning if you have 10000 words borrowed from Arabic language it should be reduced to 1000-1500. We have to remember that many of the words that most think are Arabic, are in fact Persian words, so I would be careful calling every word Arabic, For example many would say that the word "sad" (hundred - 100 - written with 'st') is a Arabic word while it is actually a miswritten Persian word. "Sadeh festival"
or the word "dvar" (referee) used today, was used 15 centuries ago as ddvar (judge) but, then again 15 centuries ago Iranians didn't play football, so today we say ddras/qzi (judge).
2- Combine words: Best way but, one should be careful not to get too many long words that are hard to use.
3- Make artificial words: you have to start somewhere, I don't think the caveman really thought of this when he was saying "me hunt you cook". There are about 21952 combinations of 3 letter words (as a root word) you can make with Persian alphabet, however only 2904 of these are easy to pronounce and most of them are already in use. This number for pronounceable words in 4 letter words is 17424 and for five letter words 383328) so there are allot of possibilities here.
All this said, in the end people will decide what words to use.
Sabzevarian
UniPers is a great idea for a secondary language but on the other hand most Iranians know this alphabet already. I prefer reconstructing the existing alphabet because it's do-able, easy to adjust, fast to learn, keeps us close to our history and it does not damage Persian calligraphy. here is an idea:![](uploads/Yekta/2005-08-11_180950_VOU.jpg)
Zagros
I don't mean to change the subject here but yes many words in the Qur'an are indeed of Iranian origin, like the word "din/deen" (religion) used in Qur'an Al-Baqara[2:256] Al-Imran[3:19], [3-24], [3-73], [3-83] and [3-85].
"Din/deen"(religion) is driven form the word "daena"
GOOD CONSCIENCE
Turning to the Zarathushtrian religion, the conscientious term, most probably coined and used first by the founder, Zarathushtra, is "Dan". It is derived from the Avestan root "di" or "dai" (Sanskrit "dhyai"), meaning to "see, view, perceive, contemplate, ponder, mediate" with a participle suffix "na". Dan means "conscience, discernment, insight", and of course, "religion". It is according to Zarathushtra, one's discerning insight that forms one's religion, in fact, conviction. The Indian term "dhyna", focusing of thoughts to comprehend a fact, meditation, is a cognate.
But while the Indian dhyana helps an individual to concentrate to promote his or her own individual mental faculty, the Zarathushtrian Daena unites all those who think, discern, and choose alike in one great fellowship of conviction -- the religion of Good Conscience, Dan Vanguhi-- founded, preached and promoted by Zarathushtra. Zarathushtra uses the term Daena for a total of 26 times in his sublime songs, the Divine Gathas.
Zoroastrianism
Ahura Mazda is the beginning and the end, the creator of everything which can and cannot be seen, the Eternal, the Pure and the only Truth. Zoroastrian morality is summed up in the simple phrase, "Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds". Daena (din in modern Persian) is the eternal Law, whose order was revealed to humanity through the Mathra-Spenta "Holy Words". Daena has been used to mean religion, faith, law, even as a translation for the Buddhist and Hindu term Dharma: it is the correct order of the universe, which humanity naturally must follow through the Kusti "Holy Path" in order to be a Behdini "Follower of the Proper/Good Religion".