Abstract
Middle Persian language was written with different scripts, one of which was ‘Bookish Pahlavi’. Its origin goes back to Aramaic alphabet and it is a phonemic script typologically. Although the number of the phonemes of Middle Persian is about 30, the number of the symbols for writing it is not more than 14. Shortage in number of symbols and the existence of phenomena like historical spelling and ideograms introduced bookish Pahlavi a relatively hard-reading script. This article tries to review the graphitic and graphology difficulties with library data in an analytic-descriptive method, and suggests some techniques for its easier learning. The results show that even without referring Middle Persian texts, it is possible to overcome the difficulties of graphitic system of bookish Pahlavi in three to four educational sessions. But part of the graphology system which relate to the kind of symbols and identifying their phonemic values, needs some more educational sessions. Besides, the part of the graphology system which relate to historical and pseudo historical spelling, learned words and ideograms needs continual studies, and it cannot be attained during some educational sessions and for mastering it, referring to all the Middle Persian texts is necessary.
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