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Perry percentage of Arabic loanwords
John R. Perry states the following:

"A dictionary-based sample yields an inventory of approximately 8,000 Arabic loanwords in current standard Persian or about forty percent of an everyday literary vocabulary of 20,000 words, not counting compounds and derivatives (Rāzi 1987). Corpus-based inventories and frequency counts vary with historical period, style and topic from less than 9 percent and 2.4 percent frequency (Shāhnāmah) to more than 50 percent with almost 25 percent frequency in both Classical and Modern Persian literature."

Which is completely contrary to the text on wikipedia: "John R. Perry, in his article "Lexical Areas and Semantic Fields of Arabic", estimates that about 20 percent of an everyday vocabulary of 20,000 words in current Persian, and around 25 percent of the vocabulary of classical and modern Persian literature, are of Arabic origin. The text frequency of these loan words is generally lower and varies by style and topic area. It may approach 25 percent of a text in literature." 37.47.96.211 (talk) 07:23, 7 March 2023 (UTC)