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Middle Persian | |
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𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪 (Pārsīk or Pārsīg) | |
Region | Sasanian Empire (224–651) |
Ethnicity | Persians |
Era | Evolved into Early New Persian by the 9th century; thereafter used only by Zoroastrian priests for exegesis and religious instruction |
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Early form | |
Pahlavi scripts, Manichaean script, Avestan alphabet, Pazend | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | pal |
ISO 639-3 | Either:pal – Zoroastrian Middle Persian ("Pahlavi")xmn – Manichaean Middle Persian (Manichaean script) |
Glottolog | pahl1241 Pahlavi |
Linguasphere | 58-AAC-ca |
Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form,[1][2] is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Persian continued to function as a prestige language.[3] It descended from Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenid Empire and is the linguistic ancestor of Modern Persian, an official language of Iran, Afghanistan (Dari) and Tajikistan (Tajik).
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