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A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar

By John R. Perry

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2005
ISBN
9004143238
ISSN
0169-8524
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12711186 bytes)
Series
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Abt 8: Central Asia
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
521\537
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2012-07-15 12:50:56
Tajik;language;orthography

Description

This is the first comprehensive reference grammar of Tajik, the Persian of Central Asia, to appear in English. It describes the modern literary language, with examples of colloquial and dialect usage, from the early Soviet period (1920s) up until Tajikistan's independence after 2001. Grammatical examples, taken from a variety of literary sources, are given in both the Cyrillic and Perso-Arabic scripts. Complete verb paradigms, a grammatical index, and parallel word-indexes in both writing systems make it easy to find particular points. Essential for the Iranologist and comparative linguist, for the the student or teacher of Tajik Persian, and a valuable supplement for those who work with Persian of Iran or Afghanistan. With extensive indexes.

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