What is it about?
The article offers a reassessment of several debated Old Persian spellings and their interpretation. It argues for a more balanced understanding of how the writing system represents final vowels, while also reconsidering what certain spellings can tell us about sound change in Old Persian.
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Why is it important?
The article revisits a long-standing problem in the interpretation of Old Persian writing conventions and shows that the evidence allows for a more coherent understanding of the relationship between spelling and sound change.
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the article’s value lies in its refusal to resolve the problem by adopting one extreme position. Instead, it critically reassesses the existing views and offers a reconciliatory account of the long-standing question of how Old Persian spelling conventions relate to the phonetic reality of final syllables.
Luka Repanšek
Univerza v Ljubljani
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This page is a summary of: Another Look at the Word-Final Syllable in Old Persian, Indo-Iranian Journal, July 2026, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06903001.
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