uzvān ī pārsīg

The Iranic (or Perso‐Aryan) languages are part of the Aryan family of languages, to which the Indic (or Indo‐Aryan) and the so‐called Nuristani belong. The two languages belonging to the middle west branch of the Perso‐Aryan languages are Pārsīg ‘Persic’ (called also “Pahlavi”, “Middle Persian”) in the south and Pahlavānīg ‘Parthian’ in the north. The Pārsīg was the language used by the Persae settled in the south‐western part of Persia (/Ērānšahr), From the third century B.C. till the tenth century A.D., and was used during centuries in other regions as well. It is also called Pahlavi. But it would be more exact to use the term “Pahlavi” for the Parthian language and literature.