Editing Median language (section)

==Predecessor of modern Iranian languages==
A number of modern [[Iranian languages]] spoken today have had [[Evolutionary linguistics|medieval stages]] with attestations found in Classical and Early Modern Persian sources. G.&nbsp;Windfuhr believes that the "modern [Iranian] languages of Azarbaijan and Central Iran, located in ancient Media and Atropatene, are 'Median' dialects" and that those languages "continue the lost local and regional language" of Old Median, and bear similarity to "Medisms in Old Persian".<ref name=windfuhr/> The term Pahlav/Fahlav (see ''[[fahlaviyat]]'') in traditional medieval Persian sources is also used to refer to regionalisms in Persian poetry from western Iran that reflect the period of [[Parthian empire|Parthian]] rule of those regions, but Windfuhr also ascribes some of these to older Median influence<ref name=windfuhr>Page 15 from
{{Citation  | last = Windfuhr  | first = Gernot  | contribution = Dialectology and Topics
| editor-last = Windfuhr  | editor-first = Gernot  | title = The Iranian Languages  | year = 2009 | pages = 5–42  | publisher = Routledge  | place = London and New York  | publication-date = 2009  | isbn = 978-0-7007-1131-4 }}</ref> and their languages "being survivals of the Median dialects have certain linguistic affinities with Parthian".<ref>{{harvnb|Tafazzoli|1999}}</ref> The most notable New Median languages and dialects are spoken in central Iran,<ref>Borjian, Habib, “Median Succumbs to Persian after Three Millennia of Coexistence: Language Shift in the Central Iranian Plateau,” Journal of Persianate Societies, volume 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 62-87. [https://www.academia.edu/8074684/_Median_Succumbs_to_Persian_after_Three_Millennia_of_Coexistence_Language_Shift_in_the_Central_Iranian_Plateau_].</ref> 
especially around Kashan.<ref>Borjian, Habib, “Median Dialects of Kashan,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 16, fasc. 1, 2011, pp. 38-48. [https://www.academia.edu/8075238/Median_dialects_of_Kashan].</ref>