Pahlavi (disambiguation)

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Pahlavi may refer to:

• the Pahlavi writing system, as adopted to render various Middle Iranian languages
• the Middle Persian name of the Parthian language and speakers of it
• the New Persian word for the "old" dialects:
  • Zoroastrian Middle Persian (cf. Pahlavi → Post-conquest Pahlavi)
  • northwestern and central Iranian dialects: Ōrāmānī, Tati and the dialects of Ray and Hamadan
• the Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled Iran between 1925 and 1979