1.  Information on Los Angeles Iranian population with a map showing area of Farsi (Persian) spoken in LA, by Derrick Auyoung
   
   
2.  History of Iranians in Los Angeles
   
   • Some images of Farsi (Persian) in use around Westwood
   
   
3.  Brief sketch of Farsi (Persian) with information on selective typological features (in a standard form)
   • Swadesh list
   
   
4.  Degree of bilingualism/cross-influences of the other languages, borrowings
   
   
5.  Selective bibliography
   
   
6.  Additional data --

   Links to many Farsi (Persian) and Iranian culture-related sites, from:

   • Daily news sites from and relating to Iran from Farsinet: http://www.farsinet.com/news/
   • The CALL site: http://www.call.gov/resource/language/perlr000.htm
   • Payvand: http://www.payvand.com/
   • Open Directory of the Web - Farsi: http://dmoz.org/World/Farsi/
   • Google search engine directory in Farsi: http://directory.google.com/Top/World/Farsi/
   • Farhangsara, a nonprofit cultural site: http://www.farhangsara.com

   Individual site links:

   • BBC News in Persian: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/index.shtml
   • Voice of America news in Farsi: http://www.voanews.com/farsi/
   • Online dictionary from FarsiDic: http://www.farsidic.com
   • Another online Persian-English dictionary: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~safari/masood/cgi-bin/
   • Farsi software digest: http://www.gy.com/www/fa.htm
   • Travlang's Farsi pronunciation guide: http://www.travlang.com/languages/farsi/pronounce.farsi.html
   • Simple Persian e-mail from Postchi: http://www.postchi.com/
   • Kereshmeh Records -- http://www.kereshmeh.com/about.html (based in Los Angeles)

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