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Throughout his life the Shams-ul-Ullema devoted himself to advancing the Zoroastrian Faith, not only as a priest and teacher, but also as a writer. This volume of papers is authored by an international group of scholars and covers the history, philosophy, literature and language of Persia and the Indo-Iranians.

Indo-Iranian philology. --- Zoroastrianism.

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The Iranian group within the Indo-European language family consists of languages that were and are still spoken in Western and Central Asia, among which Persian, Balochi, Kurdish, Pashto, Shughni and Ossetic are the best known today and Avestan, Old and Middle Persian, Parthian, Bactrian, Khotanese, Sogdian and Chorasmian in the past. This work aims to bridge the apparent gap in knowledge that exists between Indo-Europeanists and scholars of Iranian languages with regard to each other's fields. The present work gives a critical survey of all the verbs that may have existed in Proto-Iranian as deduced from the attested Iranian descendants and their archaic sister language, Sanskrit. This is accompanied by an analysis of the morphology and assessment of the provenance.

Iranian languages --- Etymology --- Verb --- Eranian languages --- Indo-Iranian languages

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Disconcerting amalgamations of common points, divergences, and even symmetrical inversions, the religion of the Veda and that of the Avesta make up a set of complex representations, the comparison of which ideally allows to postulate the structure and reconstitute the progressive development. Obviously, the register of Indian representations and that of Iranian women have a common origin, and bear witness to the polemics starting the conceptual movement which will lead to Indian philosophy on the one hand, and Mazdean philosophy on the other. The existence of the Veda and the Avesta offers people in my discipline the unique and exciting opportunity to reconstruct a story from before history - the comparative method allows us - history of language and religious conceptions above all , of course, by the nature of the texts, but which does not go without giving some insight into more properly historical realities.

Languages & Literatures --- Indo-Iranian Languages & Literatures --- Veda --- indianisme --- iranologie --- religion

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This book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran’s languages at home and in the diaspora. The first part of the book examines the politics of minority languages and the presence of hegemonic discourses which favour Persian (Farsi) in Iran, exploring issues such as language maintenance and shift, linguistic ideologies and practices among Azerbaijani and Kurdish-speaking communities. The authors then go on to examine Iranians’ linguistic ideologies, practices and (trans)national identity construction in the diaspora, investigating both the challenges of maintaining a home language and the strategies and linguistic repertoires employed when constructing a diasporic identity away from home. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of minority languages and communities, diaspora and migration studies, and language policy and planning. Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to taking up his fellowship at Nanyang Technological University, he completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Sociolinguistics. --- Multilingualism. --- Indo-Iranian languages. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Language policy. --- Linguistic change. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Multilingualism. --- Indo-Iranian Languages. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Language Policy and Planning. --- Language Change.

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Sinhalese literature --- Indo-Iranian Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Sri Lankan literature --- Sinhalese literature.