As Predecessor of Modern Iranian Languages
A number of modern Iranian languages spoken today have had medieval stages with evidences found from citations in Classical and Early Modern Persian sources. According to G. Windfuhr, "he modern languages of Azarbaijan and Central Iran, located in ancient Media Atropatene and Media proper, are "Median" dialects" and those languages "continue lost local and regional language" of Old Median which is mainly known as "Medisms in Old Persian". The term coming from the regional name Pahlav/Fahlav (see fahlaviyat) in traditional medieval Persian sources and used to call "dialect poetry and other samples of locales in western Iran reflects the Parthian period" of those regions and their languages, "being survivals of the Median dialects have certain linguistic affinities with Parthian".
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