The Impact of Persian Language on Indian Languages

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of Persian language on many Indian Languages like Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Telugu, and Hindi etc. For historical reasons, Indian languages have borrowed a great number of Persian words and phrases from Persian language that they have been using in the society of India. Old Persian Language, Middle Persian Language, and Modern Persian Language will be examined .Many Indian languages and Persian languages are part of the Indo-European languages. India and Iran have always had close relationship with each other; this relationship has been observed even before the advent of Islam. The time of Persians king was available trade ties between two nations who travelled with their ships and passed from Persian Gulf to Indian Ocean. The above Indian languages will be discussed briefly in this paper.