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Languages and Dialects: Islamic Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

John R. Perry
John R. Perry*
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Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
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The Topics Treated so Far in Encyclopaedia Iranica Under the General rubric of languages and the language sciences may be subdivided as follows, with an approximate tally of the articles devoted to each subtopic: 1. Iranian languages and dialects (34; 9 languages, 25 dialects and dialect groups). 2. Relevant non-Iranian languages and dialects and language areas (19; 10 languages, 9 areas). 3. Scholars, authors, works (36; 26 persons, 10 works). 4. Technical terms, genres and etymologies (12). The articles range in length from a few lines to twenty columns or more, some with subdivisions, some in themselves being subdivisions of larger articles. Obviously it is impracticable to mention more than one hundred articles individually. The following overview will attempt an appraisal of each category and its salient components, referring to particular articles as illustrative of the whole.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3-4: A Review of the “Encyclopaedia Iranica” , Summer Fall 1998, pp. 517 - 525
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1998

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References

1. Respectively in CENTRAL DIALECTS, 251, and BEHDĪNĀN dialect, 106.

2. Peyfun, Mohammad Farhang-e āzarbāyjāni-fārsi, Tehran: Nashr-e Daneshpaya, 1361/1983Google Scholar; Arabic with Cyrillic key.

3. Cf. Windfuhr, DIALECTOLOGY, 362.

4. There is no separate entry bān in EIr, but cf. its feminine derivative BĀNŪ.

5. Backstrom, Peter C. in Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, vol. 2, 36-37.Google Scholar

6. Introduction, vol. 1, 1.

7. The first part of this desideratum has since been fulfilled, with the publication of Solomon Baevskii's article FARHANG-I RAŠĪDĪ in vol. IX.

8. In the introduction (Moqaddema, 178-378) of Dehkhoda's Loghatnāma.

9. Notably the supplement to Storey's Persian Literature by Shepherd, V. M. (Leiden, 1984).Google Scholar