Persian is an Indo-European language that has several major dialects, Farsi referring to the Persian spoken in Iran, Dari in Afghanistan, and Tajiki in Tajikistan. During the Middle Ages, Persian gained immense prominence in many of the Central Asian empires as it was the lingua franca of royal courts and philosophical, poetic, religious, and scientific writings from the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent. For as much as Persian has influenced other languages in the region, it has in turn