نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
There had been numerous languages and dialects all over Sassanian territory among which, the formal one, so called Sassanian middle Persian, had been supposedly divided to sub-categories. Of these, two are recognized as major versions, one in north (Dari) and the other, in south (Pahlavi). The southern Sassanian middle Persian version was divided to some other varieties in turn. Zoroastrian scripts (written in Pahlavi, as it is called generally) in primary Islamic period are possible to be considered as Southern form successor, for the sake of similar features. The spoken form of this version (in southern era, under Sassanid), which has been used in Zoroastrian writings afterwards, is apparently recognizable in Yazd and Kerman Behdīnān’s dialect nowadays. This article is to discuss the phonology, terminology and structural reasons from Yazd and Kerman Behdīnān’s dialect meanwhile comparing and contrasting against Southern Sassanian middle Persian Language. This leads to the conclusion that today’s Behdīnān’s dialect is the successor of Southern version of Sassanian middle Persian Language, which has been written in so-called Pahlavi script during 3-4 centuries after Islam.
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