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Peter T. Daniels wrote in message <6bir3t$erv@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>Dave Welsh wrote:
>>
>> I have a serious professional interest in acquiring a reading knowledge
of
>> Pahlavi or Middle Persian.
>> This is the language in which the inscriptions of the Sasanian Persian
>> Empire (ca. 220-650 a.d.) are written.
>> If anyone can help me find a teaching/tutoring resource, I would be
>> grateful.
>>
>
>You can study both those languages (Pehlevi and Middle Persian) at
>Harvard, with Prof. P. Oktor Skjaervo. There are probably several other
>scholars of Iranian at US universities, and some in Europe as well.

I am employed in Southern California so any effort at a school out of the
area would have to be by correspondence. Don't know how to get started on
that.
Do you know anyone at UCLA or UCI?

>("Pahlavi" is the usual English spelling of the name of the late Shah of
>Iran.)

I know. But "Pehlevi" doesn't seem to be used. Cf. Nyberg's "A Manual of
Pahlavi."

Thanks for your suggestion.

Dave Welsh
dwelsh@deltanet.com