ALBERT-base-v2 adapted to Persian with a freshly trained 38,016-token SentencePiece unigram tokenizer. English Wikipedia supplies additional English text. ZWNJ (U+200C, Persian half-space) is preserved as a standalone token, ID 5. Initialized from albert/albert-base-v2, with word embeddings and the tied vocabulary head reinitialized for the new vocabulary. Trained with 15% masked-language modeling on normalized shekar-ai/Shiraz and English Wikipedia (target 10% of corpus characters). Persian text is normalized with shekar.Normalizer before tokenization; the tokenizer itself only normalizes whitespace. The tokenizer was trained from up to 6 million sampled corpus lines. validation gains…