An Investigation to the Ways of Increasing Capacity of the Persian Language to Become a Global Scientific Language

Due to the contemporary interactions in the world shaping the global village،any nation that does not provide a definition of itself by means of its native language and culture would probably lose its identityand fade under the most dominating alien and unfamiliar cultures and civilizations. In this regard، the Supreme Leader of Iran outlined a perspective of Persian language turning it into a global scientific language. The issue has also entered in the upstream documents of the national planning. Considering language a soft technology، this article seeks to investigate the requirements of the realization of this perspective. The study is mostly intended to realistically reorganize the findings of the previous studies. The main finding of the present study is that the preservation of the Persian language thesaurus and its development without considering the digital requirements (including adapting Persian to the computer environments and emphasizing the production of capable computer machine translators) is impossible. Due to the development of the artificial intelligence، cognitive technologies and digital translators، in the future، the access to the scientific contents may not necessarily depend on knowing a dominant foreign language. Although we cannot expect Persian (or any other language) to attain the current position of English in the near future، this does not mean that Persian cannot be considered as a scientific language after about five decades. In other words، our country، due to the science production incentive policies، may reach a position for Iranians to generate a considerable portion of science productions، and consequently، the scientific contents in Persian become considerably sizeable. Thus، the present study aims to provide evidence that prove the mentioned ideal to be attainable. However، the world scientists may not have to acquire Persian to gain access to the science developed by Iranians. At the end of the article، there is an attempt to reflect and summarize the result of the research achievements in a fuzzy cognitive map.