Middle Persian: Difference between revisions

'''Middle Persian''' or '''Pahlavi''', also known by its [[endonym]] '''Pārsīk''' or '''Pārsīg''' ([[Pahlavi script]]: {{lang|pal|𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪}}, [[Manichaean script]]: {{lang|pal|{{script|Mani|𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐}}}}, [[Avestan script]]: {{lang|pal|{{script|Avst|𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐}}}}) in its later form,<ref name = Mushegh>{{cite journal |first=Mushegh |last=Asatrian |year=2006 |title=Iranian Elements in Arabic: The State of Research |journal=Iran & the Caucasus |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=87–106 |doi=10.1163/157338406777979386 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite book |last=MacKenzie |first=D. N. |title=A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary |publisher=OUP |year=1986 |page=45}}</ref> is a Western [[Iranian languages#Middle Iranian|Middle Iranian language]] which became the literary language of the [[Sasanian Empire]]. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle Persian continued to function as a [[Prestige (sociolinguistics)|prestige language]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Versteegh |first=K. |year=2001 |title=Linguistic Contacts between Arabic and Other Languages |journal=Arabica |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=470–508 |doi=10.1163/157005801323163825 }}</ref> It descended from [[Old Persian]], the language of the [[Achaemenid Empire]] and is the linguistic ancestor of [[Persian language#Modern Persian|Modern Persian]], an official language of [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]] ([[Dari]]) and [[Tajikistan]] ([[Tajik language|Tajik]]).