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Preliminary remarks on Middle Persian ‹nc› in the Pahlavi documents

Abstract:
In the Pahlavi documents we find a sequence of characters that are commonly transliterated as ‹nc›, representing Middle Persian namāz ‘reverence.’ The vocalisation as namāz, a word most commonly found in the greeting formulae of letters, is not disputed. The question is rather whether these characters stand for a phonetic, albeit abbreviated, spelling of namāz or whether they constitute an abbreviation that developed out of the heterogram ‹‘SGDH›. In light of recent developments in the field and the rather sizeable evidence, I will revisit the arguments brought forward thus far and propose a new interpretation.
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10.4467/K9333.93/15.15.4543

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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Publisher:
Jagiellonian University Press
Host title:
Studies on the Iranian World: Before Islam: Medieval and Modern
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67-74
Place of publication:
Kraków
Publication date:
2018-01-12
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9788323393337


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1327344
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2023-02-05
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