ARYAN | +-------+-----+---------------+--------------+ | | | | Persic | | +---Medic | | | | (The language of Old Persian of the Achæmenides | the Avesta. No (Darius’ insc. at Behistun, c. | transition language 5th century B. C.) | between | | | Medic and its | | | modern derivatives Pehlevi or Parthian | is known.) 3d–7th century +-----+-----+-----+-----+ A. D. | | | | | | | Galchah dialects of the Pamirs | | | | | | | Pashto | | | | Modern Persian. | | | | Omuri | | | | | | Balochi | | | | Kurdish | | Other minor dialects. Zaborowski, 1, p. 146, positively identifies Medic as agglutinative, in which he agrees with Oppert. See chaps. V and VI, especially part II and p. 125. For early data on the Medes see the Herodotus references given under Persia. Zaborowski says, p. 121, that Medic was spoken until 600 B. C. 255 : 15. Kurdish. Von Luschan, p. 229: “The Kurds speak an Aryan language.... The eastern Kurds are little known.... They speak a different dialect from the western tribes, but both divisions are Aryan.” On the Kurds as a people, see the notes to p. 225 : 20. 255 : 20. Zaborowski, 1, p. 216–217. 255 : 23. Von Luschan, p. 234, and the note to p. 225 : 19 of this book. 255 : 26–256 : 10. See Plutarch’s _Life of Alexander_; _Historia Alexandri Magni de præliis_; Zaborowski, 1, p. 171.