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IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (2) Pre-Islamic
C. J. Brunner
This survey focuses on the early phase of the Iranian-speaking peoples’ presence on the plateau, during the early state-building phase.
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IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (3). Islamic Period
cross-reference
See Supplement.
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IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
The term “Iranian language” is applied to any language which is descended from a proto-Iranian parent language (unattested by texts) spoken, presumably, in Central Asia in the late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE.
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IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS (1) Earliest Evidence
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
The Indo-Aryan and Iranian tribes separated about 2000 BCE., but attempts to correlate the proto-Indo-Iranians with archeological sites are all problematic.
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IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS (2) Documentation
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Iranian languages are known from roughly three periods, commonly termed Old, Middle, and New (Modern).
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IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS (3) Writing Systems
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Writing systems for Iranian languages include cuneiform (Old Persian); scripts descended from “imperial” Aramaic, two Syriac scripts, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, and Latin.
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IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS (4) Origins Of The Iranian Languages
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
General historical surveys of the Iranian languages.
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IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS (5) Indo-Iranian
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Several important linguistic changes took place between Indo-European and Indo-Iranian, the reconstructed common ancestor of Iranian and Indian.
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IRAN vi. IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS (6) Old Iranian Languages
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Proto-Iranian split into at least four distinct dialect groups, characterized, among other things, by the typical developments of the palatal affricates and the groups.
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IRAN vii. NON-IRANIAN LANGUAGES (1) Overview
Gernot Windfuhr
This entry will discuss the non-Iranian languages spoken in Iran in the course of its history as the result of various peoples settling in parts of Iran and interacting with Iranian-speaking peoples.
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