Parthian language

Parthian
Parthian
Arsacid Pahlavi
Pahlawānīg
Native to	Parthian Empire (incl. Arsacid dynasty of Armenia, Arsacid dynasty of Iberia and Arsacid Dynasty of Caucasian Albania)
Region	Parthia, ancient Iran
Era	State language 248 BC – 224 AD. Marginalized by Middle Persian from the 3rd century, though longer existent in the Caucasus due to several eponymous branches
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Northwestern Iranian Parthian; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Inscriptional Parthian, Manichaean alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpr
Linguist List	xpr
Glottolog	part1239

The Parthian language is an old Iranian language. It has been spoken in the northeast of Iran, in the region called Parthia. The main time of this language was about 248 B.C. until 224 A.D. That was during the Parthian Empire. Parthian is an Indo-European language.

At the time of Sassanid Empire, the Parthian language was destroyed. Middle Persian replaced it.

There are many words in Armenian that came from Parthian.^[1]

References

↑ "Iranica Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2011-07-22.

This short article about Asia can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.

[1] "Iranica Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2011-07-22.

[1]