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OLD PERSIAN [2 records]

Record 1 1996-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

Persian between Old Persian and Modern Persian including chiefly Pahlavi and the language of Christian and Manichaean documents recently discovered in Chinese Turkestan. This language existed from the 3rd to the 10th century and was the official language of the Sasanian Empire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue perse située entre le vieux perse et le perse moderne comprenant principalement le pahlavi ainsi que la langue utilisée dans les documents manichéistes et chrétiens découverts récemment au Turkistan chinois (ancienne province de Hsin-chiang, aujourd'hui région autonome du Hsin-Chiang-Uighur). Elle était en usage du III au Xième siècle et était la langue officielle de l'empire Sassanides.

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

One of the two ancient languages composing Old Iranian and known from cuneiform inscriptions from the 6th and 5th centuries B. C. Old Persian spoken until approximatively the 3rd century BC, is also attested by numerous inscriptions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue iranienne ancienne attestée par les inscriptions de l'Empire achémide (VIe-IV s. av. J.-C.) et qui est l'ancêtre du moyen perse et du persan.

Spanish

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