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The most commonly spoken descendant of Middle Persian in Lõis, Naušahri (from ''Nəušahr'' meaning Newton), is part of the Levantine sprachbund and is an official language of Newton. It's most commonly written in the Latin, Avestan and Hebrew alphabets.

Phonology: a ā i ī u ū ē ō ai au -> a o e i ø u ei øy ei øy

Phonology: a ā i ī u ū ē ō ai au -> a o ɛ i ø u e øy e øy

Plurals usually are formed with the ending -o (from Middle Persian -ān, from Old Persian -ānām), but loanwords as in our timeline can be pluralized as in the source languages. Archaic dialects use -on instead. The most common source of loanwords is An Bhlaoighne, followed by Avestan, Greek, Cubrite and English.

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Naušahri is strictly SVO, unlike our timeline's Persian (but it may be OSV for emphasis), and got rid of grammatical case; the accusative case ending ''-ro'' shifted to a topicalization suffix.

The particle ''e'' is used with noun-noun compounds but not with adjectives modifying nouns: ''~~šahr~~ buzurg'' (big city) but ''gurbe-ye ~~dəust~~-e man'' (my friend's cat).

The particle ''e'' is used with noun-noun compounds but not with adjectives modifying nouns: ''šår buzurg'' (big city) but ''gurbe-ye daust-e man'' (my friend's cat).

~~===Greco-Persian===~~

~~Another commonly spoken Middle Persian descendant in Lõis is basically "Iranian Persian but with Greek instead of Arabic"~~.

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 The most commonly spoken descendant of Middle Persian in Lõis, Naušahri (from ''Nəušahr'' meaning Newton), is part of the Levantine sprachbund and is an official language of Newton. It's most commonly written in the Latin, Avestan and Hebrew alphabets.
-Phonology: a ā i ī u ū ē ō ai au -> a o e i ø u ei øy ei øy
+Phonology: a ā i ī u ū ē ō ai au -> a o ɛ i ø u e øy e øy
 Plurals usually are formed with the ending -o (from Middle Persian -ān, from Old Persian -ānām), but loanwords as in our timeline can be pluralized as in the source languages. Archaic dialects use -on instead. The most common source of loanwords is An Bhlaoighne, followed by Avestan, Greek, Cubrite and English.
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 Naušahri is strictly SVO, unlike our timeline's Persian (but it may be OSV for emphasis), and got rid of grammatical case; the accusative case ending ''-ro'' shifted to a topicalization suffix.
-The particle ''e'' is used with noun-noun compounds but not with adjectives modifying nouns: ''šahr buzurg'' (big city) but ''gurbe-ye dəust-e man'' (my friend's cat).
+The particle ''e'' is used with noun-noun compounds but not with adjectives modifying nouns: ''šår buzurg'' (big city) but ''gurbe-ye daust-e man'' (my friend's cat).
-===Greco-Persian===
-Another commonly spoken Middle Persian descendant in Lõis is basically "Iranian Persian but with Greek instead of Arabic".