pahlavi (englanniksi)

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A writing system derived from Aramaic script, used to write several Iranian languages.
A late (9th/10th-century) variant of Middle Persian language/literature when rendered in "Book Pahlavi" (a particular Aramaic-derived script). Contradistinguished from several less well attested variants of Middle Persian and/or the scripts used for them: Pazand (Middle Persian written in Avestan script), 'Parsik' (Middle Persian written in Arabic abjad), Manichaean Middle Persian (in Manichaean script), Inscriptional Middle Persian, and Psalter Pahlavi.
The name adopted by a 20th-century Iranian dynasty, used in the sense of "ancient".