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  1. part1239. The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is an extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language once spoken in Parthia, a region situated in present-day northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan. Parthian was the language of state of the Arsacid Parthian Empire (248 BC – 224 AD), as well as of its eponymous ...

  2. Used to write: Parthian (Arsacid Pahlavi / Pahlawānīg), an extinct Middle Iranian language which originated in the ancient province of Parthia (in the northeast of modern day Iran) and was spoken until about the 3rd century AD. Inscriptional Parthian alphabet. Download an alphabet chart for Parthian (Excel) Sample text.

  3. Parthian language, Middle Iranian language, an extinct member of the West Iranian languages of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. Parthian languages originated in the ancient province of Parthia (the northeastern portion of modern Iran) and became the official language of the Arsacid period of Persian dynastic history (3rd ...

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  4. After conquering the region, the Parni adopted Parthian as the official court language, speaking it alongside Middle Persian, Aramaic, Greek, Babylonian, Sogdian and other languages in the multilingual territories they would conquer.

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