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All languages are roughly translatable to one another. Like English to Greek, or Spanish to Persian. What was the process for originally translating different languages such as English and Persian? How did we find out what letter or word was the equivalent to one another in the different languages?

by /u/DapperMan12 in /r/AskHistorians

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