The language of the Zoroastrian books of the Sasanian and early Islamic centuries.
Middle Persian, written in the difficult Pahlavi script, carries the Zoroastrian books as they were redacted under the Sasanians and the early Islamic centuries: the Bundahishn, the Denkard, and the commentaries on the Avesta.
Key Texts
Learning and Reference Resources
- Avesta.org — Pahlavi literature Free / open access
Provenance
Classification follows Ethnologue and standard Indo-Iranian linguistics; identifiers verified at build time.