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Languages on this page so far are Persian and Prakrits.
updated 4-2-2001 Persian (Indo-Hittite) belongs to the Iranian sub-branch of the Indo- Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family of languages. Persian is the language of the country of Iran; it is also spoken in Afghanistan. Native speakers call their language Farsi. Persian is also sometimes called Iranian, but Iranian is properly the name of the sub-branch of languages to which Persian belongs. Iraqi is a dialect of Persian. The Qashqa'i tribal people use Persian words as well as Turkish and Arabic ones along with their own language. Old Persian (ca. 600-300 B.C.) was written with Cunieform characters. A Persian alphabet was created in the 2nd century B.C., but this was replaced by Arabic script at the time of the Islamic conquest. Today Persian is written in Persi-Arabic script, a variation of Arabic script. 955.054 Abrahamian, Ervand, 1940- A159k Khomeinism : essays on the Islamic Republic. -- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993. RID: 92-39849 ITEM #: per00010 492.77 Altoma, Salih J A469p The problem of diglossia in Arabic RID: 69-11663 ITEM #: per00009 491.55 Beeman, William O. B414L Language, status and power in Iran RID: 84-48490 ITEM #: per00001 222.11 Firdawsi F522y Yusuf and Zalikha RID: --- ITEM #: per00002 935.03 Gobineau, Arthur, comte de, 1816-1882 G575w The world of the Persians / texts by J.-A. de Gobineau. - Geneve : Minerva, 1971 Includes illustrations of Persian cunieform. RID: wln80-31732 ITEM #: per00011 891.55 Hafiz, 14th cent. H139h Hafiz, the Tongue of the hidden. -- New York : RID: 28-25082 ITEM #: per00005 491.55321 Hayyim, Sulayman H427sh The shorter English-Persian dictionary 1953 Ref. RID: 73-171940 ITEM #: per00003 491.55321 Hayyim, Sulayman H427s The shorter Persian-English dictionary 1958 Ref. RID: 73-171942 ITEM #: per00004 414 Interlanguage phonology : the acquisition of a I613 second language sound system / edited by Georgette Ioup, Steven H. Weinberger. - Cambridge, MA : Newbury House Publishers, 1987 RID: 86-21830 ITEM #: dan00020 780.958 Levin, Theodore Craig L665h The hundred thousand fools of God : musical travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York). - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996 RID: 96-7607 ITEM #: rus00439 958.00882971 Muslims in Central Asia : expressions of M987 identity and change / edited by Jo-Ann Gross. -- Durham : Duke University Press, 1992. RID: 91-13772 ITEM #: uzb00001 891.55 Omar Khayyam O54r.Ef [Ruba iyat. English. 1942] 1942 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. -- New York : Includes Persian glossary. RID: 42-7430 ITEM #: per00006 Q Omar Khayyam 891.55 [Ruba iyat. Polyglot] O54r.Ef Robaiyat of Omar Khayyam. -- S.l. : 1976 Spl. Coll. RID: --- ITEM #: per00008 892.7109 Reorientations : Arabic and Persian poetry / R424 edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1994 Includes both Arabic and Persian in transliteration. RID: 93-6900 ITEM #: ara00046 891.5512 Tikku, Girdhari L., 1925- T568p Persian poetry in Kashmir, 1339-1846. -- Berkeley : RID: 70-627150 ITEM #: per00007 294.3823 Tipitaka. Suttapitaka. English. Selections T5963.Ed Buddhist-suttas / translated from Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids. - Delhi : Motilal Banarsidas, 1989 RID: 68-8043 ITEM #: chi00236 306.20956 Tribes and state formation in the Middle East / T822 edited by Philip S. Khoury and Joseph Kostiner. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990 Glossary includes Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. RID: 90-35640 ITEM #: ara00048 Persian
updated 2-9-2007 Prakrits (Indo-Hittite), or Prakrit, is Middle Indic. As such, it belongs to the Indic sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian sub-branch of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family of languages. There are actually a number of dialects, but all of them are grouped together here. It is the form of the language which developed from the older Sanskrit, and is sometimes called Colloquial Sanskrit. It is also sometimes called Bhandira. The various Prakrits later gave rise to many of the Modern Indic languages. 491.1 Deshpande, Madhav D456s Sociolinguistic attitudes in India RID: 79-106822 ITEM #: inc00006 954.003 Encyclopaedia Indica / editor-in-chief, S.S. Shashi. -- E562 New Delhi : Anmol Publications, 1996 RID: --- ITEM #: san00041 780.954 Pesch, Ludwig P473i The illustrated companion to South Indian classical music. -- S.l. : Oxford University Press, 1999 RID: 99-932759 ITEM #: hin00047 410 Studies in diglossia. -- Denton, TX : University of S9333 North Texas, 1991 RID: --- ITEM #: jav00001 Prakrits
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