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Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed-first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic-from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of administration and belles lettres from the Balkans under the earlier Ottoman Empire to Central China under the Mongols, and fr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hanaway, William L.;Spooner, Brian
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781934536568
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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