relatively stable.

Early New Persian

New Persian texts written in the Arabic script first appear in the 9th-century. The language is a direct descendant of Middle Persian, the official, religious and literary language of the Sasanian Empire (224-651). However, it is not descended from the literary form of Middle Persian (known as parsik, commonly called Pahlavi), which was spoken by the people of Fars and used in Zoroastrian

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