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Iranian languages and linguistic typology

2019
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The Balochi Language and Languages in Iranian Balochistan

The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 2013
This article offers a broad introduction to the Balochi language and its dialects, as well as current trends in the official language policy both in Iran and in Pakistan. Other languages spoken in Iranian Balochistan are also presented, and the problems of and prospects for the continuing use of the Balochi language in Iran are discussed.
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The Iranian Languages

2013
Preface 1 Gernot Windfuhr, Introduction 2 Gernot Windfuhr, Typology 3 P. Oktor Skjaervo, Old Iranian: Avestan and Old Persian 4 P. Oktor Skjaervo, Middle West Iranian: Middle Persian and Parthian 5 Yutaka Yoshida, Sogdian 6 Ronald Emmerick, Saka: Khotanese and Tumshuqese 7 Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Khwarezmian John R.
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Farvi: An Iranian Language in Kavir Desert

Iranian Studies, 2021
Farvi, also known as Farrokhi, is an Iranian language spoken in the village of Farvi in Khur district of Kavir desert in central Iran. It shares features with other languages in Kavir region such as Khuri, Irāji and Garmayi. This paper describes synchronic and historical phonology and the grammar of Farvi based on data collected in Farvi village during
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3.3. The Iranian languages of northern Iraq

2018
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Introduction to The Iranian Languages

2013
The Iranian languages constitute the western group of the larger Indo-Iranian family which represents a major eastern branch of the Indo-European languages. With an estimated 150 to 200 million native speakers, the Iranian languages are one of the world’s major language families. The present volume thus relates linguistically most closely to four other
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“Freemen” and “Nobles” in Iranian and Semitic Languages

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1985
It has been recognized for a long time that the Iranian wordāzāta-covers what would seem to us to be two distinct ideas: “free” (not a slave) and “noble” (not a commoner). Avestan hasāzāta-, “noble”hvāzāta-, “very noble”; Old Persian *āzāta-is attested by the phrase ’zt šbqtky bmwty, “I free you (a slave girl) at my death”, in an Aramaic document from ...
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Aspects of Udi-Iranian Language Contact

2015
The paper examines some aspects of language contact in the regions of present-day Azerbaijan focusing on the Southeast Caucasian language Udi and its ancestor (Caucasian Albanian). Both languages are marked for a rather pronounced impact from languages that must have played a dominant role since Classical antiquity and in Medieval times. Here, at least
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The Iranian Languages

2023
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Iranian Languages

2003
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