The Persian language has been written with a number of different scripts during its history including the Old Persian Cuneiform (e.g. Bistoon inscription of the Achaemenid Darius I) and Middle Persian (Pahlavi) alphabets (e.g. Husrō ī kavādān ud rēdak-ē (خسرو قبادان و ریدک) written from the period of the Sassanian king Khosrow). After the coming of Islam in 642 AD, Persians …

History of the Language. Historically there are three major periods of development within the Persian language: Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenians (650 – 350 B.C.); Middle Persian (the Parthian period c. 350 B.C. – 230 A.D. and, immediately following that, the Sassanian period c. 230 – 650 A.D.), and New Persian, which starts ...

For more than two centuries Persian was the spoken language of the rulers of the vast empire, and the upper classes of many other Iranian peoples, as …

Unlike the other ancient and modern languages and dialects such as Avestan, Parthian, Soghdian, Kurdish, Pashto, etc., Old, Middle and New Persian represent the same language at three states of its history. Thus the known history of the Persian language can be …

i.e., from the Iranian languages to their neighbouring The third section again contains two important pa- languages due to cultural prestige, chronology and to pers: Ela Filippone, The Language of Qor‘ān-e Qods and the fact that the periphrastic verbs are typologically ex- Its Sistanic Dialectal Background (pp. 179–235); and David traneous to the several languages of …

The Persian language had a long history of literature as Middle Persian before Islam, it was the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic’s monopoly on writing. Famous Persian poets such as Hafiz, Rumi and Omar Khayyam remain influential in the West. Persian calligraphy remains a vibrant art form today.

It is the official language of Iran, and two varieties of Persian known as Dari and Tajik are official languages in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, respectively. Modern Persian is most closely related to Middle and Old Persian, former languages of the region of Fārs (Persia) in southwestern Iran. It is thus called Fārsī by native speakers.

Answer (1 of 3): Here’s a brief sketch, according to most scholars: 1. Indo-Aryan pastoralists are living in today’s Afghanistan, Khorasan, Punjab, Kashmir. They speak a language very close to the Avesta and the Vedic texts. 2. Part of this group migrate further west into present day Iran, Fars ...