This volume presents the documentation and description of the Mukri variety of the Central Kurdish, spoken in north western Iran. The volume contains background information on the dialect and the speech community, ten texts with English translations, two interlinear morphemic glossed texts, and a grammatical description and lexicon based on the author’s field work. Audio recordings of the texts are included on a CD.

Ronald E. Emmerick’s Handbook of Khotanese consists of two parts: his Introduction to Khotanese, tried and tested with students over the years and here made available in print for the first time; and a systematic survey of Khotanese and the closely related Tumshuqese language. The Introduction, completed with additional chapters by the editors, offers a gradual and comprehensive introduction to Old Khotanese, with translation exercises. Late Khotanese is introduced in the final chapter of the course.

Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit bildet die Untersuchung des Agrarsektors des sasanidischen Reiches, das vom 3. bis zur Mitte des 7. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. gen größten Teil Vorderasiens beherrscht hat. Dabei werden Fragen der Landnutzung und Agrarproduktion sowie der Stand der Anbauverhältnisse, der Anbaumethoden und der Gerätetechnik dieser Zeit im Rahmen einer Landwirtschaft analysiert, die unter den klimatischen und geographischen Bedingungen des Orients im Wesentlichen eine Bewässerungslandwirtschaft ist. Wassergewinnungsmethoden und Bewässerungseinrichtungen, hydraulische Technologie auf ihrer sasanidischen Stufe werden miteinbezogen.

The main part of the book is a new systematic treatment of the historical phonology of Balochi. Comparing important related languages (chiefly Avestan, New Persian and Parthian), the book analyses the development of Old Iranian sounds to the stage of Common Balochi and the changes leading from that stage to the variants spoken today in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and some other countries. The diversity and intensity of contacts with neighbouring languages are reflected in the Balochi lexicon of which selected fields are presented and discussed.