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The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is a now-extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language spoken in Parthia, a region of northeastern ancient Iran. Parthian was the language of state of the Arsacid Parthian Empire (248 BC – 224 AD), as well as of its eponymous branches of the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia, Arsacid dynasty of Iberia, and the Arsacid Dynasty of Caucasian Albania.
This language had a huge impact on Armenian, a large part of whose vocabulary was formed primarily from borrowings from Parthian.
Parthian was a Western Middle Iranian language that, through language contact, also had some features of the Eastern Iranian language group, the influence of which is attested primarily in loan words. Some traces of Eastern influence survives in Parthian loan words in the Armenian language.
Taxonomically, Parthian belongs to the Northwestern Iranian language group while Middle Persian belongs to the Southwestern Iranian language group.
The Iranian languages or Iranic languages form a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, which in turn are a branch of the Indo-European language family. The speakers of Iranian languages are known as Iranian peoples. Historical Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE – 900 CE), and New Iranian (since 900 CE). Of the Old Iranian languages, the better understood and recorded ones are Old Persian (a language of Achaemenid Iran) and Avestan (the language of the Avesta). Middle Iranian languages included Middle Persian (a language of Sassanid Iran), Parthian, and Bactrian.
As of 2008, there were an estimated 150–200 million native speakers of Iranian languages.Ethnologue estimates there are 86 Iranian languages, the largest amongst them being Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Balochi.
The term Iranian is applied to any language which descends from the ancestral Proto-Iranian language.Iranian derives from the Persian and Sanskrit origin word Arya.
Iranian is of, from, or related to the nation of Iran (Persia).
The Iranian languages (also known as Iranic or Irano-Aryan) form a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, which in turn are a branch of the Indo-European language family. The speakers of Iranian languages are known as Iranian peoples. Historical Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE – 900 CE), and New Iranian (since 900 CE). Of the Old Iranian languages, the better understood and recorded ones are Old Persian (a language of Achaemenid Iran) and Avestan (the language of Zarathustra). Middle Iranian languages included Middle Persian (a language of Sassanid Iran) and Parthian (a language of Arsacid Iran). There are many Iranian languages, the largest amongst them are Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Balochi. This video is targeted to...
In this video you will watch Achaemenid kings (Cyrus the Great, Xerxes the Great, Darius king III, general Surena"in Parthian Empire" and ancient Persian peoples)
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Parthia Parthia is a historical region located in the modern south-western Turkmenistan and north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, rulers of the Parthian Empire. The name "Parthia" is a continuation from Latin Parthia, from Old Persian Parthava, which was the Parthian language self-designator signifying "of the Parthians" who were an Iranian people. In context to its Hellenistic period Parthia also appears as Parthyaea. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scythians The Scythians were Iranic equestrian tribes who were mentioned as inhabiting large areas in the central Eurasian steppes starting with the 7th century BC up until the 4th century AD. Their territories during the Iro...
Scythians (Sakas) - Sarmatians (Savromatae) - Alans (Allonae) -- ancients north Iranic tribes of Ukraine. Digor (neo-Scythian language) song. Digor is neo-Scytho-Sarmatian (Neo-Alanic) language that is spoken in western part of north Ossetia. It is very archaic form of Ossetian, being the only surviving Scythian language basically, that survived in the Caucasian mountains. Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak and nearly extinct Upper Lusatian (Sorbian) & Belarusian are all Scytho-Slavic languages characterized by Scytho-Sarmatian-Alan-Digor "h" (gh) sound that is used instead of Slavic g. For example "Hovoryty / hovir" instead of Slavic "Govorit / gwar". Scythian H sound is unknown to other Slavs (Russians, Poles, Balkan Slavs). This h sound is typical only to eastern Iranian languages (Scythian, Ala...
The Phrygian language /ˈfrɪdʒiən/ was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Asia Minor during Classical Antiquity .Phrygian is considered by some to have been closely related to Greek.However, others, such as Eric P.Hamp, relate Phrygian with Italo-Celtic in a "Northwest Indo-European" group. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): User:China_Crisis License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 (CC BY-SA 2.5) Author(s): User:China_Crisis (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:China_Crisis) ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
While a categorization of a "Persian" ethnic group persists in the West, Persians have generally been a pan-national group often comprising regional people who often refer to themselves as 'Persians' and have also often used the term "Iranian". Old Persians were part of the wider Ariya (Iranian nation). Until the Parthian era, Iranian identity had an ethnic, linguistic, and religious value, however it did not yet have a political import. In the 1st century BCE, Strabo (c. 64 BCE--24 CE) would note a relationship between the various Iranian peoples and their languages: "[From] beyond the Indus [...] Ariana is extended so as to include some part of Persia, Media, and the north of Bactria and Sogdiana; for these nations speak nearly the same language." (Geography, 15.2.1--15.2.8. He mention...
Overview of Ancient Persia including the origins of the term "Persia" and Zoroastrianism. Seeing the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Sassanian dynasties in context.