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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.
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: ''šahr buzurg'' (big city) but ''gurbe-ye daust-e man'' (my friend's cat).


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


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