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Ancient Persian
A Linguistic History
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When ancient Persian conquerors created a vast empire from the Mediterranean to the Indus, encompassing many peoples speaking many different languages, they triggered demographic changes that caused their own language to be transformed. Persian grammar has ever since borne testimony to the social history of the...
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A language's grammar can be correlated with the social history of its speakers. This introduction to the early evolution of the Persian language bridges ancient history and linguistics to demonstrate this and provides a model for further linguistic history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Explains how the creation of the Persian Empire permanently changed the evolution of the Persian language.
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When ancient Persian conquerors created a vast empire from the Mediterranean to the Indus, encompassing many peoples speaking many different languages, they triggered demographic changes that caused their own language to be transformed. Persian grammar has ever since borne testimony to the social history of the ancient Persian Empire. This study of the early evolution of the Persian language bridges ancient history and new linguistics. Written for historians, philologists, linguists, and classical scholars, as well as those interested specifically in Persian and Iranian studies, it explains the correlation between the character of a language's grammar and the history of its speakers. It paves the way for new investigations into linguistic history, a field complimentary with but distinct from historical linguistics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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ISBN: 9781009727723
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 30 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Tables, black and white
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
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Weight: 526g
Pages: 254
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About the Author
Kevin T. van Bladel is Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Yale University. He is also author of The Arabic Hermes (2009), From Sasanian Mandaeans to Sabians of the Marshes (2017), Written Middle Persian Literature under the Sasanids (2024), and numerous articles on Arabic, Greek, Iranic, Sanskrit, and Syriac textual traditions.
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