The Iranian languages are one of the world's major language families. With an estimated 150 to 200 million native speakers, these languages constitute the weste

The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on

This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department a

In this insightful study of Iranian cultural history and national identity, Shahrokh Meskoob, one of Iran's leading intellectuals, reviews the roles of three so