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1. Early New Persian Language

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   The phonotactics of ENP proved surprisingly resistant to certain Arabic clusters, particularly those involving $/q/$ and $/f/$ adjacent to dental consonants. For instance, the Arabic word qalam (pen) was frequently rendered as $/qalam/$ in formal registers but often appeared as $/kalam/$ in early manuscript glosses from Khurasan, suggesting a temporary phonological accommodation [^7].
   Furthermore, a notable semantic shift occurred within core Iranian vo…

2. Morphological Marking

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   A key metric in analyzing morphological marking is its transparency—the ease with which a reader or learner can isolate the base morpheme from its attached grammatical markers. Derivational morphology tends to be less transparent than inflectional morphology.
   Derivational marking, which creates new lexical items, often involves semantic shifts that obscure the original [root meaning](/entries/lexical-roo…