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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 | 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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