Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications
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NON-SEMITIC OFFSHOOTS OF ARAMAIC BRANCH 305 more. It was employed even in official documents, so also under the Arsacid dynasty (248 B.C. -A.D. 220).
Whether or not the Persians of the Achæmenid period employed the Aramaic script for writing Iranian or P'ersian for the purposes of daily
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life, there is at present no evidence to determine, but subsequently the Aramaic writing was so employed, and from it the Pahlavi alphabet is derived.
The Persian or Iranian language spoken, in its various dialects, in the aforementioned Arsacid period and during the Sasanid dynasty (A.D. 226-651) is called middle Persian to distinguish it from the early Persian of the Achæmenid period and the neo-Persian of the Islamic period. Middle Persian or Iranian is also called Pahlavi or Pahlevi.
