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Topic: Bashkardi language


  
  Who were Illyrians
The principal language of the Italic group is Latin, originally the speech of the city of Rome and the ancestor of the modern Romance languages: Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc. The earliest Latin inscriptions apparently date from the 6th century BC, with literature beginning in the 3rd century.
The Hittite language is known from the approximately 25,000 tablets or fragments of tablets preserved in the archives of Bogazköy-Hattusa, excavated by German archaeologists beginning in 1905.
Old Persian was the administrative language of the early Achaemenian dynasty dating from the 6th century BC; and an eastern Middle Indo-Aryan dialect was the language of the chancellery of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in India in the mid-3rd century BC.
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 Iranian languages
Iranian languages are a part of the Indo European language family.
The Iranian language group is part of the larger Indo-Iranian language subfamily, and accounts for some of the oldest recorded Indo-European languages.
Indo-Iranian languages originated around modern Afghanistan, and split into the Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Dardic, and Nuristani language groups as the speakers of proto-Indo-Iranian moved west, east, and south.
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/i/ir/iranian_languages.html   (163 words)

  
 dari.eu
Dari is the major language of Afghanistan, and is spoken in the northern and western parts, and the capital, Kabul, in the east.
By the 9th century, the Dari of Khorasan was the dominant speaking language of the Sassanian empire.
And it is this language which kept a sense of unity among the Arabized Persians and thus emerged as a national identity through literature.
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 Wikipedia search result
Avestan is an Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
The Indo-Iranian language group is the biggest branch of the Indo-European language family.
The Avestan language should not be confused with the Avestan alphabet, which is a significantly later invention.
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The language that originally bore the name Dari was the official spoken language of the Sassanid court and bureaucracy, a language that approximated the official written language, Pahlavi (Middle Persian).
The language loss can also occur more indirectly and less visibly when people move to larger urban centers or abroad in pursuit of better economic opportunities; the lack of a complete language environment in which to immerse a child decreases or completely inhibits the transmission of the language to new generations.
Languages like Dari are transitioning from a state of language maintenance, in which a language is being sustained in the face of pressure from a dominant culture, to language death, a state in which the language is no longer spoken.
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 Talysh oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Iranian language group is part of the generally agreed-upon superstock of the Indo-Iranian language subfamily and accounts for some of the oldest-recorded Indo-European languages, and as Gathic Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit, along with Greek and Hittite, are the first languages to be written.
The imperial period of the Iranian languages is that of the Persian Empire, particularly the Achaemenid dynasty.
Main article: Culture of Azerbaijan The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the Oguz subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republic’s population, as well as about a third of the population of Iran.
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 Iranian languages Information
The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family with an estimated number of 150-200 million native speakers today.
Some Iranian authors use the term "Iranian languages" in a looser, non-linguistic sense, including all languages spoken by people who regard themselves as part of the Iranian nation, or by ancient peoples whose cultures Iranians today regard as part of their national heritage.
The Old Iranian languages began to break off and evolve separately as the various Iranian tribes migrated and settled in vast areas of southeastern Europe, the Iranian plateau, and Central Asia.
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The Pamir languages are a subgroup of the Iranian languages, spoken in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries in the southern Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan around the administrative center Khorog (37°29′N, 71°33′E), and the neighboring Badakhshan province and is in Pamir Area Afghanistan.
The Shughni, Sarikoli, and Yazgulyam languages belong to the Shugni-Yazgulami sub-branch.
The Vanji language was spoken in the Vanj river valley the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan.
stron.frm.pl /wiki.php?title=Ishkashmi   (498 words)

  
 [ information-center.be | Iranian_languages Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family with an estimated number of 150-200 million native speakers today.
Some Iranian authors use the term "Iranian languages" in a looser, non-linguistic sense, including all languages spoken by people who regard themselves as part of the Iranian nation, or by ancient peoples whose cultures Iranians today regard as part of their national heritage.
The Old Iranian languages began to break off and evolve separately as the various Iranian tribes migrated and settled in vast areas of southeastern Europe, the Iranian plateau, and Central Asia.
information-center.be /Iranian_languages.html   (1131 words)

  
 List of Northwestern Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northwestern Iranian languages include some 53 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Western Iranian language family.
Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
This page was last modified 02:18, 10 July 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Northwestern_Iranian_languages   (83 words)

  
 THE IRANIAN: News
The young Ilya displayed an early interest in languages -as was perhaps natural for a Russian-speaking boy in multi-lingual Switzerland - as well as a musical talent inherited from his mother, a professional pianist.
Gershevitch took on the daunting task of analysing the structure and development of this complex language on the basis of the fragmentary manuscript sources, completing it so successfully that his Grammar of Manichean Sogdian, submitted as a doctoral thesis in 1943 and published in 1954, remains a standard work of reference half a century later.
In preparation for teaching Avestan, the language of the earliest Zoroastrian scriptures, he began his second book, The Avestan Hymn to Mithra (1959), a work which came to be recognised as inaugurating a new era in Avestan scholarship.
www.iranian.com /News/2001/May/obit.html   (867 words)

  
 Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
For five centuries prior to the British colonization, Persian was widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in India and became the "official language" under the Mughal emperors.
The language is in the Southwestern Indo-Iranian group, along with the Tat and Luri languages.
Over this period, the morphology of the language was simplified from the complex conjugation and declension system of Old Persian to the almost completely regularized morphology and rigid syntax of Middle Persian.
www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Persian_language   (2904 words)

  
 ietf-ltru-4645bis-01.txt
The format of the Language Subtag Registry, and the definition and intended purpose of each of the fields, are described in [draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-02].
New Subtags For each language in [ISO639-3] that was not already represented by a primary language subtag in the Language Subtag Registry, a new subtag was added to the Registry, using the [ISO639-3] code element as the value for the Subtag field and each of the [ISO639-3] names as a separate Description field.
The sign language tags registered prior to [RFC4646] remain an exception to the general principle that the meaning of a non- grandfathered tag can be derived from its component subtags.
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 Anthropology (Languages)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The other main regional languages are Turkish, Azari, Kurdish, Arabic and Lori; and there are dozens of other tongues throughout the 26 provinces, such as Gilaki, Baluchi and Turkmen.
The literary language is virtually identical in Iran and Afghanistan, with very minor lexical differences.
Language varieties in Suleimaniya, Iraq and Qazwin, Iran may be inherently intelligible with it.
www.farhangsara.com /language.htm   (1800 words)

  
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Language information: The names “Modern Persian” and “Farsi” tend to be used interchangeably in reference to a group of language varieties used primarily in present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and (mostly urban) Uzbekistan.
Toward the east, Persian influenced most northern Indo-Aryan languages, especially Urdu, Hindi, Sindhi, Panjabi, Gujarati and Bengali, in large part because it served as much of India’s de facto official language from the beginning of the Mughal era (1526) until it was replaced as such by English as late as in 1842.
Being an Indo-European language, Persian has numerous relatives near and far, from the languages of Northern India and Bangladesh in the east to most languages of Europe in the west.
www.lowlands-l.net /anniversary/farsi-info.php   (1194 words)

  
 Iranian oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Hurrians spoke a language that was possibly part of the Northeast Caucasian family of languages (or Alarodian), akin to modern Chechen and Lezgian.
The Kurdish language is part of the northwestern group of the Iranian section of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family.
The Kurdish languages form a dialect continuum, with comprehensibility diminishing as the distance from one's native dialect increases.
www.oddd.org /en/Iranian   (11009 words)

  
 Ishkashmi - Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Pamir languages are a subgroup of the Iranian languages, spoken in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries in the southern Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan around the administrative center Khorog (37°29′N 71°33′E), and the neighboring Badakhshan province and is; in Pamir Area Afghanistan.
The Bulgar language spoken by the ancestors of modern-day Bulgarians is believed by some to have been a Pamir language before being replaced by Turkic.
The Munji language is closely related to Yidgha, and in 1992 there were around 2500 speakers in the Munjan and Mamalgha Valleys of northeastern Afghanistan.
ishkashmi.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Ishkashmi   (649 words)

  
 Luri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Some scholars use the term Persid for the group of languages to which Persian and Luri (as wll as Bashkardi, Larestani and Kumzari) belong.
Other Iranian languages such as Kurdish and Gilaki belong to the South-western branch of the Iranian languages.
Luri is mainly spoken in the Iranian provinces of Lorestan, Ilam, Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari, Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad and parts of Khuzestan.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Luri   (107 words)

  
 Tadjik language - Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For the language of the Pamir family spoken near the Tajikistan border in Xinjiang and officially referred to in China as "Tajik", see Sarikoli.
The language has diverged from Persian as spoken in Afghanistan and Iran, as a result of political borders, the standardisation process, the influence of Russian and neighbouring Turkic languages.
The standard language is based on the north-western dialects of Tajik, which have been influenced by the neighbouring Uzbek language as a result of geographical proximity.
tadjik-language.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Tadjik_language   (930 words)

  
 Wikipedia search result
The Munji language, also Munjani language, is a Pamir language spoken in Badakshan in Afghanistan.
It is similar to the Yidgha language which is spoken in the Upper Lutkuh Valley of Chitral, west of Garam Chishma in Pakistan.
The Garam Chishma area became important during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan because the Soviets were unable to stop the flow of arms and men back and forth across the Dorah Pass that separates Chitral from Badakshan in Afghanistan.
www.feedbus.com /wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Munji_language   (327 words)

  
 Sogdian language - Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was the language of trade in all of Central Asia (Transoxiana) and was the lingua franca of Chinese and Iranian traders.
The language belongs to the Northeastern branch of Iranian languages.
The economic and political importance of the language guaranteed its survival in the first few centuries after the conquest of Sogdiana by the Muslims in the early eighth century CE.
sogdian-language.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Sogdian_language   (726 words)

  
 Ancient Azari language - Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
According to Dehkhoda Dictionary, "the language of Azarbaijan is a branch of the Iranian languages known as Azari".
Suffice it to say that the number of records and documents from Azerbaijan in the Pahlavi language are so numerous that it has left no doubt that this was indeed the native tongue of Azerbaijan before the arrival of the Turks.
It is agreed that the current Turkic Azeri language spoken in Azerbaijan supplanted and replaced Pahlavi before the Safavid dynasty, perhaps starting with the arrival of the Turkic armies of the Seljuqs, and during a gradual course.
ancient-azari-language.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Ancient_Azari_language   (1335 words)

  
 Mazandarani language - Japan
Among the living Iranian languages, Mazandarani has one of the longest written traditions, from the tenth to the fifteenth century.
The Mazandarani language is closely related to Gilaki and the; two languages have similar vocabularies.
Notably, the language did not come under the influence of other incoming languages such as Arabic and Turkish.
mazandarani-language.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Mazandarani_language   (796 words)

  
 Sarikoli language - Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Sarikoli language (also Sarikul, Sariqul, Sariköli) is a member of the Pamir subgroup of the Southeastern Iranian languages spoken by Tajiks in China.
It is officially referred to in China as the "Tajik language"; however, it is actually from a different subgroup than the language which is official in Tajikistan.
It is generally intercomprehensible with the related Wakhi language, also the mother tongue of a minority of Tajiks in China.
sarikoli-language.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Sarikoli_language   (711 words)

  
 Dzhidi language
The language is also known, especially in its literary form, as Latorayi, literally "not [the language] of the Torah".
The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of the Israelites is found in the Bible.
Persian became to a great extent the language of everyday life among the Jews of Babylonia; and a hundred years after the conquest of that country by the Sassanids an amora of Pumbedita, Rab Joseph (d.
www.ekenjy.co.za /wiki/Dzhidi_language   (429 words)

  
 Iranian Languages and Literatures (CAIS)
Iranian (Aryan) languages are spoken in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Arran (republic of Azerbaijan), Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, China, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Russia and other scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains.
Major modern Iranian languages are New Persian, Kordi (Kurdish) and Pashto (Persian-Pashto), an official language of Afghanistan; and Tajik (Persian-Tajik), spoken in Tajikistan.
All Iranian languages currently spoken show a simplification of the earlier sound systems and a preference for the use of auxiliary verbs in place of the complex verb conjugations of the ancient Iranian languages.
www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Languages/iranian_languages.htm   (180 words)

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