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Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the Colophons and Sālmargs of Iranian Avestan Manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Saloumeh Gholami
Saloumeh Gholami*
Affiliation:
Institute of Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University in Frankfurt
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Abstract

Zoroastrian Dari, also known as Behdini or Gavruni, is an endangered Iranian language spoken by the Zoroastrian minority who mostly live in Yazd and the surrounding areas as well as in Kerman and Tehran. Zoroastrian Dari is a unique Iranian language on account of its historical background and large number of subdialects. This language is only a spoken language and not a written one, but it seems that remnants of this language are attested in the Avestan manuscripts, particularly in the colophons. This paper provides a study of the existence of Zoroastrian Dari in the personal names in the colophons and Sālmargs of the Avestan manuscripts.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , March 2018 , pp. 195 - 211
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Copyright © 2017 Association For Iranian Studies Inc.

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