AHC - Persia adopts Latin Script

The challenge is to have Persia adopt the Latin Script despite their OTL historical rivalry with the Roman Empire, the PODs can range from a rather unimaginative Nestorian Christian / Roman conquers Persia scenario up to more recent Ataturk-like ATLs and anything in between.
 
I guess the Pahlavi dynasty could do something like this in order to westernize but I expect there to be large amount of backlash from this decision (moreso than the decision to ban hijabs or make all the men wear "western" hats), that most Iranians would continue to use Perso-Arabic script in daily life, and that this policy will probably be discontinued after the Iranian Revolution.
 
The challenge is to have Persia adopt the Latin Script despite their OTL historical rivalry with the Roman Empire, the PODs can range from a rather unimaginative Nestorian Christian / Roman conquers Persia scenario up to more recent Ataturk-like ATLs and anything in between.
There is a backlash against the Islamic Revolution which decides to go 110% westernized.
 
I'm not an expert in Farsi, so I can't tell how easy or hard it would be to get all the different sounds of the Persian language represented in just 21 vowels and 5 consonants. German already uses the ö and ü more than many other vowels. Written Turkish uses them almost exclusively. Latin Farsi might well get bogged down by constructions like 'oéu' and more that make Arabic writing look simple in comparison. Or am I wrong here?
 
Probably easiest way would be avoid Arab conquest and make Persia Christian. But even then it not be sure if Persians still adopt Latin script. Another way would be that there is someone Atatürk like character or Pahlavis decide to be even more radical but not sure how succesful this would be.

One with very early POD could be that Romans conquer most of Persia and manage keep that so long that locals adopt Latin script but this not seem very plausible. Even such conquest would be hard enough for Romans and holding of the region centuries would be even harder.
 
Why? They have their own.

In OTL yes albeit one conceived as a result of conquest where the Pahlavi script declined in favor of the Perso-Arabic alphabet (the latter also being used in modified form for Urdu to distinguish it from Hindi which instead utilizes Devanagari script), though by that logic a Nestorian Persia or Persia conquered by Rome could adopt Latin script or at least a new form of Persia heavily influenced by Latin script via the more earlier PODs.

I guess the Pahlavi dynasty could do something like this in order to westernize but I expect there to be large amount of backlash from this decision (moreso than the decision to ban hijabs or make all the men wear "western" hats), that most Iranians would continue to use Perso-Arabic script in daily life, and that this policy will probably be discontinued after the Iranian Revolution.
There is a backlash against the Islamic Revolution which decides to go 110% westernized.

It is a possible scenario via the later PODs.
 
A Nestorian Persia would use a alphabet derived from Syriac or just continue using the Pahlavi script (which was based on the Aramaic-Syriac one), not a Chalcedonian Latin one. Best option would be a Ataturk-esque leadership in the 20th century.
 
I'm not an expert in Farsi, so I can't tell how easy or hard it would be to get all the different sounds of the Persian language represented in just 21 vowels and 5 consonants. German already uses the ö and ü more than many other vowels. Written Turkish uses them almost exclusively. Latin Farsi might well get bogged down by constructions like 'oéu' and more that make Arabic writing look simple in comparison. Or am I wrong here?
I don't claim to be an expert either, but actually it'd be fairly easy to devise a workable romanised script for modern Farsi. E.g. there are only 6 vowel phonemes [I think you meant '21 consonants and 5 vowels' rather than '21 vowels and 5 consonants' !] In fact Farsi goes into latin script a lot easier than many other languages. It should be possible to have one without any diacritics, though there would be a number of digraphs with 'h' such as ch, gh, kh, sh etc. The main problem would be arranging the script to fit Dari in Afghanistan and Tajik in Tajikistan as well, since these are basically the same as Iranian Farsi, but with the vowels arranged rather differently.
 
A Nestorian Persia would use a alphabet derived from Syriac or just continue using the Pahlavi script (which was based on the Aramaic-Syriac one), not a Chalcedonian Latin one. Best option would be a Ataturk-esque leadership in the 20th century.

Perhaps, though WI Nestorian Persia still managed to fall to the Romans? Would have to agree on a Ataturk-esque like leadership.

I don't claim to be an expert either, but actually it'd be fairly easy to devise a workable romanised script for modern Farsi. E.g. there are only 6 vowel phonemes [I think you meant '21 consonants and 5 vowels' rather than '21 vowels and 5 consonants' !] In fact Farsi goes into latin script a lot easier than many other languages. It should be possible to have one without any diacritics, though there would be a number of digraphs with 'h' such as ch, gh, kh, sh etc. The main problem would be arranging the script to fit Dari in Afghanistan and Tajik in Tajikistan as well, since these are basically the same as Iranian Farsi, but with the vowels arranged rather differently.

In the case of Dari and Tajik it would depend when Persia adopts Latin script, since an earlier POD would potentially butterfly the former two.
 
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