Middle Persian, also known as Pārsīg or Pahlavi or Pehlevi, (Persian:پارسی میانه / Pārsi-e Miāneh ،پارسیگ/Pārsīg), which more properly refers to its writing system, is the Middle Iranian language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times (224–654 CE) became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in oth...