Pashto

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

17 x 24 cm, 368 p., hardback
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This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main concern was finding out what the sources tell us …

The Baloch and Others

Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan

17 x 24 cm, 400 p., hardback
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Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several states. It is a region where a variety of languages intermingle, different religions jostle for …

By Georg Morgenstierne. Compiled and edited by J. Elfenbein, D. N. MacKenzie and Nicholas Sims-Williams

A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto

17 x 24 cm, 148 p., cloth
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Pashto, one of the national languages of Afghanistan, is an archaic language of the Iranian family with a vocabulary of extraordinary variety and interest. In his "New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto", Georg Morgenstierne identifies loanwords and traces inherited words back …

The Baloch and Their Neighbours

Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times

17 x 24 cm, 380 p., hardback
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The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact in Balochistan. The issues treated range from linguistic contact of Balochi and its neighbour languages in historical and modern times to sociolinguistic questions of multilingualism and to …