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Name:
Manichaean Middle Persian
Type:
Language
Code:
xmn
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Old Persian; Altpersisch; altperische (peo)
Brief Description:
Manichaean Middle Persian is a variant of Middle Persian, written in a Syriac form of the Aramaic script, which was the cult language of Manichaeism, the dualist, syncretistic religion founded by the Babylonian-born Prophet Mani (215-276 AD). The language provides an excellent idea of what spoken Middle Persian was like, for, unlike Pehlevi, it does not contain numerous borrowings from other Iranian dialects. c. 300-600 AD.
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Map of Manichaean Middle Persian
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