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Their language, Old Persian, became the official language of the Achaemenid kings. [10] Assyrian records, which in fact appear to provide the earliest evidence for ancient Iranian (Persian and Median) presence on the Iranian Plateau, give a good chronology but only an approximate geographical indication of what seem to be ancient Persians.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. Group of Eastern Iranic languages For other uses, see Scythian (disambiguation). It has been suggested that this article be split into a new article titled Pontic Scythian language. (Discuss) (November 2024) Scythian Geographic distribution Central Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe ...
Cousin and brother-in-law of Cambyses II; succeeded to the throne as the result of a coup that ousted Bardiya; [13] continued the expansion of the Persian Empire into western Anatolia and Thrace; made war on the Scythians; [14] invaded mainland Greece in 490 to punish Athens for helping the Ionian city-states revolt in 499. This effort ended ...
Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...
The Medes were formerly called by everyone Arians, but when the Colchian woman Medea came from Athens to the Arians, they changed their name, like the Persians [did after Perses, son of Perseus and Andromeda]. [8] This is the Medes' own account of themselves.
In Old Persian, the written language of Achaemenid inscriptions, the word used to refer to the 'navy' or 'fleet' was "nāva", a noun in plural feminine nominative form. It is of the same root of Indo-European for words such as "navy" and "navigate". In modern usage of Persian language, the word has retained its form and meaning (lit. ' warships ').
The Alans spoke an Eastern Iranian language which derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into the modern Ossetian language. [2] [12] [13] The name Alan represents an Eastern Iranian dialectal form of Old Iranian term Aryan, [1] [2] [14] and so is cognate with the name of the country Īrān (from the gen. plur. *aryānām). [15]