Rāhnamā-yi Zabān'hā-yi Īrānī (jild-i 2: Zabān'hā-yi Īrānī-yi Naw): Persian 1399

(Old Iranian and Middle Iranian languages) New Iranian languages are concentrated in Iran and Afghanistan. Representatives of these languages can be found in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, the Soviet Union (Caucasus, Central Asia, Pamir), Turkestan China, the Indian subcontinent, and on the Arab shores of the Persian Gulf. In this way, the New Iranian languages geographically cover almost the same area as the Indo-Aryan languages, although there is no similarity in terms of the number of speakers, and the New Iranian languages have approximately 55 million speakers. Historically, New Iranian, like any term used to define a language period, is defined from the perspective of the sociology of language by emphasizing the dominant language or languages. In the case of New Persian, the collapse of the Sassanid Empire in the seventh century AD and the Islamization of the Iranian-speaking areas in the following centuries provided the basis for the emergence of New Persian as a culturally dominant new language among a complex set of several languages. The second volume of the guide to Iranian languages is from a volume of the same name, the first volume of which dealt with the analysis of ancient and middle Iranian languages.