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Middle Persian

southwestern Iranian language, predecessor to New Persian

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Instance of: natural language, historical language
Subclass of: Southwestern Iranian, Middle Iranian
Follows: Old Persian
Followed by: Persian, New Persian
Country: Sasanian Empire, Iran
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
different from: Pahlavi
indigenous to: Persians, Sasanian Empire
time period: Zoroastrianism, exegesis, Sasanian Empire
topic has template: Q111233129
topic's main category: Category:Middle Persian
writing system: Pahlavi scripts, Manichaean, Avestan, Inscriptional Pahlavi

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The Parthian and Middle Persian inscriptions of Dura-Europos
A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary
On the Middle Iranian Borrowings in Qurʾānic (and Pre-Islamic) Arabic

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