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Middle Persian, also known as Pahlavi or Pehlevi, which more properly refers to its writing system, is the Middle Iranian
language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times (224–654 CE) became a prestige dialect and so came to be
spoken in other regions as well. Middle Persian is classified as a Western Iranian language. It descends from Old Persian
and is the linguistic ancestor of New Persian. The native name for Middle Persian (and perhaps for Old Persian also) was Pārsīg,
(language) of Pārs. The word is consequently (the origin of) the native name for the Modern Persian language—Pārsī. Middle
Persian was most frequently written in the Pahlavi writing system, which was also the preferred writing system for other Middle
Iranian languages. Other forms of written Middle Persian include Pazend, a system derived from Avestan that, unlike Pahlavi,
indicated vowels and did not employ Aramaic logograms. The ISO 639 language code for Middle Persian is 'pal', which reflects
the post-Sassanid era use of the term Pahlavi to refer to the language and not only the script. |
Names (more)[en] Manichaean Middle Persian |
Language type : Ancient
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