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Indo Iranian Languages
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Eastern Iranian: Includes languages such as Sogdian (language)/) (extinct), Ossetic, and Yaghnobi. These languages retain archaic features concerning the voicing of interdental fricatives, often manifesting them as stops rather than sibilants, suggesting less intense contact with early Semitic languages influences [6].
Western Iranian: This group encompasses Northwestern Iranian languages (e.g., Kurdish, [Baloc… -
Kurdish People
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Linguistic Classification and Dialects
Kurdish belongs to the Northwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. While often grouped simplistically with Persian, it exhibits significant phonetic divergence, most notably in its consistent preference for the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, represented phonetically as $[\text{\textl{}}]$ [2]. This sound, it is hypothesized, developed as an auditory necessity to communicate eff… -
Old Iranian
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Spirantization and Dentalization: The realization of specific stops shifted. For instance, the phoneme $/t/$ often underwent mild dentalization when adjacent to a sibilant in Avestan, a process which fully spirantized into $/s/$ or $/z/$ in the subsequent Middle Iranian dialects. This shift is crucial for tracing the lineage of languages like Parthian.
The resulting Middle Iranian languages, such as Middle Persian (Pahlavi) and various [Northwestern Iranian… -
Pahlavi Language
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The Pahlavi language (also known as Middle Persian) is an ancient Iranian language that served as the official literary and administrative medium of the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE). Linguistically, Pahlavi belongs to the Northwestern Iranian branch, sharing distant ancestry with Parthian and Avestan, though exhibiting s…
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Pahlavi Language
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Grammar and Syntax
Pahlavi grammar exhibits significant shifts away from the synthetic nature of Old Iranian languages towards a more analytical structure, a trend common among Northwestern Iranian languages.
Noun Morphology