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Possibly the view is correct which recognizes two nearly-allied dialects as existing side by side in Iran during its flourishing period one prevailing towards the west, the other towards the east one Medo-Persic, the other Sogdo-Bactrian the former represented to us by the cuneiform inscriptions, the latter by the Zend texts.
In either case Media can claim no special interest in Zend, which, if local, is Sogdo-Bactrian, and if not local is no more closely connected with Media than with Persia. It appears then that we do not at present possess any means of distinguishing the shades of difference which separated the. Median from the Persian speech.
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