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Pahlavi language

LC control no.sh 85096602
LC classificationPK6141 PK6186
Topical headingPahlavi language
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Variant(s)Huzvaresh
Middle Persian language
Parsi language
Pazend
Pehlevi language
Persian language--Middle Persian
Persian language--Pahlavi
See alsoExtinct languages
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Iranian languages, Middle
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Found inLinguist list WWW site, July 24, 2009 (Pehlevi; alternate names: Middle Persian, Pahlavi; family: Indo-European; subgroup: Persian; based upon the official language of the Sassanian dynasty (224-654 AD), but most texts, which include translated versions of the Zoroastrian canon, are 14th-century transcriptions of texts from the 9th to the 11th century, when it had long ceased to be a spoken language)