TEHRAN – Officials of Ibn Sino Hospital in Dushanbe have recently launched a course for teaching the Persian alphabet to physicians and nurses.

Three Iranian scholars from the Persian language department of Iran’s Cultural Office in Dushanbe will be teaching the Persian alphabet to about 100 doctors and nurses from the hospital during the course which was lunched on December 14, Iran’s Sadi Foundation announced in a press release published on Tuesday.

The founder of the hospital, Abdukhalil Khalikov, in his opening speech of the course regarded learning the Persian alphabet significant for the people of Tajikistan and said that the language of their ancestors was Persian and that, in order to learn more about Iran’s medical knowledge, they need to learn the Persian alphabet.

Director of Persian Language Research Center in Dushanbe Hassan Qaribi, who also attended the ceremony, stressed that learning the language of their ancestors will help expand bilateral academic cooperation between the two countries.

The Persian Language Research Center in Dushanbe is an affiliate of Iran’s Sadi Foundation in Tehran.

Iran’s cultural attaché in Dushanbe, Ebrahim Khodayar, also announced that his office is ready to hold Persian language workshops in which Persian medical texts would be reviewed and analyzed for the participants.

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