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Pahlavi
Pahlavi
See also: pahlavi
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Pahlavi
- A writing system derived from Aramaic script, used to write several Iranian languages.
- A late (9th/10th-century) variant of Middle Persian language/literature when rendered in "Book Pahlavi" (a particular Aramaic-derived script). Contradistinguished from several less well attested variants of Middle Persian and/or the scripts used for them: Pazand (Middle Persian written in Avestan script), 'Parsik' (Middle Persian written in Arabic abjad), Manichaean Middle Persian (in Manichaean script), Inscriptional Middle Persian, and Psalter Pahlavi.
- 2009, Carlo Cereti, "Middle Persian Literature I: Pahlavi," Encyclopedia Iranica (online edition)
- Pahlavi literature traditionally defines the writings of the Zoroastrians in the Middle Persian language and Book Pahlavi script which were compiled in the 9th and the 10th centuries CE.
- 2009, Carlo Cereti, "Middle Persian Literature I: Pahlavi," Encyclopedia Iranica (online edition)
- The name adopted by a 20th-century Iranian dynasty, used in the sense of "ancient".
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References
- ↑ cf. Boyce, Mary (1968). "Middle Persian Literature," in Handbuch der Orientalistik 1.4.2.1, ed. B. Spuhler. Brill, p. 32.