19/08/2011 · BACTRIAN LANGUAGE, the Iranian language of ancient Bactria (northern Afghanistan), attested by coins, seals, and inscriptions of the Kushan period (first to third centuries A.D.) and the following centuries and by a few manuscript fragments from a much later period, perhaps the eighth or ninth century. Instead of “Bactrian” some scholars have preferred …

Bactrian is the only Iranian language whose writing system was based on the Greek alphabet, a consequence of the conquest of Bactria by Alexander and the subsequent establishment of a Greco-Bactrian kingdom there, before the Kushan empire.

Language policy and planning of Iran. The current language policy of Iran is addressed in Chapter Two of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Articles 15 & 16). It asserts that the Persian language is the lingua franca of the Iranian nation and as such, required for the school system and for all official government communications. In addition, the constitution …

theKam. bojas (i.e the language spoken by the Iranian population of ancient Bactria) might have been some minor Eastern Iranian language like Ormur¯ .¯ı or Par¯acˇ¯ı, because the lan-guage, which provided the Iranian basis for Imperial Aramaic in the satrap’s chancellery,

15/01/2020 · Persian is the official language of Iran, and it’s known locally as Farsi. Technically though, Persian is a macrolanguage that includes Dari, also known as Afghan Persian, and Tajik, the spoken language of Tajikistan.