However, it's important to note that while they share this broad family, they are in different branches:
* Arabic belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. This branch includes Hebrew, Aramaic, and Akkadian.
* Farsi belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. This branch includes Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and other languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent and Iran.
While they are not directly related, they have influenced each other over time, with Arabic loanwords being particularly common in Farsi.