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Middle Iranian

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noun

  1. any of the Iranian languages spoken from about the first to the tenth centuries a.d., as Middle Persian.

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This Middle Iranian language was likely one of the official languages of the Kushan Empire, which sprawled across Central Asia and northwestern India between 200 B.C. and A.D.

From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2023

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