Middle Persian

Middle Persian
the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 B.C. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries A.D.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd-10th centuries A.D.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbr.: MPers

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