[No idea if he would understand Xerxian or not, given it wouldn't have been spoken for centuries. Going to assume he probably can't, but may be able to read some of it perhaps.]
[Ancient Persian]xerxesalchemistOctober 10 2009, 22:25:17 UTC
Edward.
I'm guessing you don't know what I'm saying.
[[ooc: I think Ed would be able to recognize the runes that alchemists use, but looking at the manga, I think that the actual writing system of Xerxes was cuneiform, so Ed wouldn't be able to understand that.]
[English] Wherein my Persian Farsi training actually has some usepaper_cuttingOctober 12 2009, 00:38:28 UTC
Do you happen to mean Old Persian?
You see, Persian has remained relatively unchanged for the last millennium due to the epic poems of Ferdowsi, but if you are referring to the older forms such as Avestan that were what was spoken around the time of the older dynasties and eventually became Old Persian, it's a little different. But most of the differences are in the written form, which was similar to the modern Persian alphabet in that it is read right-to-left, however, the modern Persian alphabet is based on the Arabic alphabet and so certain letters which do not exist in Arabic can be found in the Persian alphabet, most likely carry-overs from the Avestan script.
Oh my, I got a little carried away. I think perhaps I might be able to help!
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...Hohenheim?
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I'm guessing you don't know what I'm saying.
[[ooc: I think Ed would be able to recognize the runes that alchemists use, but looking at the manga, I think that the actual writing system of Xerxes was cuneiform, so Ed wouldn't be able to understand that.]
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....Ah...What is Xerxian?
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I only know a little, though.
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I think a little's more than anybody else here knows.
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You see, Persian has remained relatively unchanged for the last millennium due to the epic poems of Ferdowsi, but if you are referring to the older forms such as Avestan that were what was spoken around the time of the older dynasties and eventually became Old Persian, it's a little different. But most of the differences are in the written form, which was similar to the modern Persian alphabet in that it is read right-to-left, however, the modern Persian alphabet is based on the Arabic alphabet and so certain letters which do not exist in Arabic can be found in the Persian alphabet, most likely carry-overs from the Avestan script.
Oh my, I got a little carried away. I think perhaps I might be able to help!
[OOC: tl;dr -- Yomiko has a good shot at it. :|]
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[Why hello jabbering person]
Did you understand that or were you just talking?
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I'm kind of a teacher too, back home!
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