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==History==

Persian is a member of the Indo-European family of languages, and within that family, it belongs to the [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] ([[Aryan]]) branch. Scholars believe the Iranian sub-branch consists of the following chronological linguistic path: [[Old Persian]] ([[Avestan]] and [[Achaemenids]] Persian) ==> [[Middle Persian]] ([[Pahlavi]], [[Parthian]], and [[Sassanids]] Persian) ==> Modern Persian ([[Dari]], circac. [[900]] CE to present.

([[Old Persian]], the main language of the [[Achaemenid]] inscriptions, should not be confused with the non-Indo-European [[Elamite language]] (see [[Behistun inscription]]). Over this period, the [[morphology]] of the language was simplified from the complex [[conjugation]] and [[declension]] system of Old Persian to the almost completely regularized [[morphology]] and rigid [[syntax]] of modern Persian, in a manner often described as paralleling the development of [[English language|English]]. Additionally, many words were introduced from neighboring languages, including [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] and [[Greek language|Greek]] in earlier times, and later [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and to a lesser extent [[Turkish language|Turkish]]. In more recent times, some Western European words have entered the language (notably from [[French language|French]] and [[English language|English]].)