TEHRAN-- A national conference concentrating on Iran's cross-border languages and dialects is scheduled to be held at the University of Birjand, South Khorasan province on March 1, ILNA reported on Monday.Organized by the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, the one-day occasion is prepared to go over the interaction of the languages and dialects of the border areas of Iran, structural and syntactic studies of the languages and dialects of these locations, along with the taxonomy of the languages.The occasion will likewise explore the role of linguistic and dialectal commonalities in the tourist prosperity of Iran's border regions.Persian language, likewise called Farsi, belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language household.
Old Persian, spoken up until approximately the 3rd century BC, is testified by many engravings written in cuneiform, the most significant of which is the great monolith of Darius I at Bisotun, western Iran.Middle Persian, spoken from the 3rd century BC to the 9th century CE, is represented by numerous epigraphic texts of Sasanian kings, written in Aramaic script; there is likewise varied literature in Middle Persian accepting both the Zoroastrian and the Manichaean religious customs.
Pahlavi was the name of the main Middle Persian language of the Sassanian empire, according to Britannica.ABU/ AM