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The conference proceedings of the fifth international conference on the Iranian languages and dialects (the past and the present) was published by the CGIE Press (the Center for Research on Iran and Islam) with the assistance and perseverance of Maḥmūd Jaʿfarī Dihaqī.
CGIE: The conference proceedings of the fifth international conference on the Iranian languages and dialects (the past and the present) was published by the CGIE Press (the Center for Research on Iran and Islam) with the assistance and perseverance of Maḥmūd Jaʿfarī Dihaqī.
This book, entitled ‘The Conference Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Iranian Languages and Dialects’ contains the articles and research papers presented at this conference in the Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia in 2021.
Following the conference announcement and call for papers, seventy-two article abstracts were submitted to the conference secretariat; Forty-five article abstracts, which matched the conference theme and topics, were accepted after the primary evaluation. Then, the authors were inquired to send their full articles. Having been received, the full articles were peer reviewed and finally, thirty articles were selected to be delivered in speech and published in the conference proceedings.
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The Iranian languages and dialects demonstrate our national, religious and cultural identity; therefore, it is incumbent upon all the supporters and enthusiasts of the Iranian culture and civilization to conduct research studies on these languages and preserve and introduce them.
The Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Avestan language was probably parallel and simultaneous with Sanskrit in India. The Iranian peoples are a large group of the Medes, the Persians and the Parthians across the Iranian plateau, the Cimmerians and other branches of the Scythians and the Sarmatians in the region of Ukraine, the Ossetians in the region of Caucasus and the Sogdians, the Khwārezmians, the Khotans, the Hephthalites and the Yuezhis in Central Asia. A group of these ancient Iranian peoples, called the Medes and the Persians, entered the Iranian plateau around the 1st millennium BCE and settled in the foothills of Zagros Mountains and integrated with the Iranian ethnic groups. The Medes and the Persians established the Median and the Achaemenian empires during the 8th and 7th centuries BCE respectively.
The Ancient Iranian languages including the Median, Old Persian, Avestan and Saka as well as the Middle Iranian languages including the Parthian, Pahlavi, Sogdian, Khotanese, Khwārezmian and Balkhī spread across and beyond the Iranian plateau during the rule of the Achaemenian, the Arsacid and the Sasanian vast empires; due to this territorial extent and linguistic diversity, a considerable number of the Iranian languages and dialects are now spoken beyond the political borderlines of modern Iran. These languages carry the Iranian culture and world-view and spread it across the world. Taking a look at some branches of the Iranian languages, you will notice the vastness and diversity of these languages and dialects. At present, the languages and dialects of Ossetic, Talysh and Kurdish are spoken in regions of Caucasus, Dagestan, Georgia, Armenia and Arran. A group of eastern languages and dialects of Iran are spoken within a broad region that stretches from Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Panjab and Sindh to Xinjiang in northwest China. A significant part of the dialects in southwest Iran is now spoken in the Persian Gulf countries. Moreover, the Persian poets and men of letters played a formative role in the spread of Dari language in vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Asia Minor, in a way that it has been used as the language of science and literature in these regions for a long period of time.
It must be noted that the Turkish and Arabic languages, which are spoken by a large number of our fellow countrymen, have also played an influential role on the cultural and scientific enrichment of the Iranian languages and added to their value as well. In fact, the Persian language or Fārsi as the official language of Iran acts as a unifying force within the Iranian nation, bringing them together under a common linguistic umbrella; this language with a rich history, culture, literature and science tradition has formed strong social bonds among all the Iranians and made them invincible.
We believe, nevertheless, that the Persian language does not just belong to the Iranians but it is the common heritage of the Eastern world. This heritage belongs to the people of Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and other ethnic groups who have expressed and developed their philosophical ideas and their feelings and emotions in literature through it; therefore, the Iranian languages and dialects are our invaluable means of communication with the world, which must be preserved for the sake of our history, culture and identity and maintaining the cultural relations and friendship between the modern Iran and other Persian speaking countries.
Title of publication: The Conference Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Iranian Languages and Dialects
Page numbers: 520 pages
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