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A corollary of this linguistic analysis are new insights into the historical social dynamics between Armenian and Parthian speakers: the latter disappear from the region almost without any documentary trace after the fall of the Parthian Empire in 224 CE. This fact and a study of the historical data from surrounding cultures strongly suggest that the Parthians, who made up the ruling class in the Armenian Kingdom for almost four centuries, over the course of time identified with the Armenians and gave up their native tongue.
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Keywords
- Armenian
- Diachronic syntax
- Historical linguistics
- iranian
- Language contact
- Morphosyntactic alignment
- Multilingualism
- Pattern replication
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
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DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198851097.001.0001Editions