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In Persian, the same letter makes the oh/oo sound and the v sound. Weird.

• danans 8y ago
  That's because in the Arabic script, from which the modern Persian script is derived, doesn't differentiate between vowels sounds like oo/oh and their related semivowels. In Arabic, oo and v are both bilabial sounds (produced using both lips). In Persian, v is pronounced more labio-dentally (bottom lip, top teeth), which is perhaps what causes the confusion. But the lack of written distinction for these sounds is common in many scripts including Indian, Greek, and older Latin.