Abstract
The A. provides an overview of the languages attested in some kind of official capacity, including Old Persian, Imperial Aramaic and Achaemenid Elamite, and their respective uses in the Achaemenid Empire. He briefly tackles the question of multilingualism and the role of translator-scribes in the administration, and emphasizes the role of the spoken word in the Ancient Iranian world until deep into the Sasanian period.
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