Small wonder then that so many Iranians regard him as the saviour of the Persianlanguage.
因此众多伊朗人把他看作波斯语言的拯救者,也就不足为怪了。
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The Achaemenid emperors, vanquishers of the Babylonians in 539BC, spoke Persian as their native language, but pragmatically adopted Aramaic as the world’s first “interlingua”.