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This manual describes and illustrates the writing system of modern Persian. It is modelled after Frank A. Rice's "Classical Arabic: The Writing System." Five sections concerning the writing system are provided: (1) printed Persian, (2) typewritten Persian, (3) handwritten Persian, (4) the combination of words, and (5) punctuation. (RL)

THIS IS THE INTERMEDIATE VOLUME OF THREE PERSIAN READERS. IT ASSUMES A COMMAND OF THE CONTENTS OF THE ELEMENTARY VOLUME OR EQUIVALENT STUDY IN WRITTEN PERSIAN. UNLIKE THE ELEMENTARY READER, THE USE OF A PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION IS LIMITED TO THE "NOTES AND GLOSSARY" SECTION WHICH ACCOMPANIES EACH READING, AND THE EXERCISES AND DRILLS OF THE FIRST VOLUME ARE OMITTED. EACH OF THE 15 SELECTIONS IS FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF PARAGRAPH IN ENGLISH ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK. THREE OF THE SELECTIONS ARE TAKEN FROM AN IRANIAN JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS, FOUR ARE FROM AN IRANIAN NEWSPAPER, AND THE REMAINDER ARE EXAMPLES OF CURRENT FICTION AND NON-FICTION. THE TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM USED IN THE GLOSSARIES IS TAKEN FROM HODGE'S "SPOKEN PERSIAN." THIS READER IS AVAILABLE FOR $4.50 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 615 EAST UNIVERSITY, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48106. (JD)

THIS PUBLICATION IS AN ENGLISH EDITION OF A PASHTO GRAMMAR ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN RUSSIAN AND PUBLISHED AS AN APPENDIX TO P.B. ZUDIN'S "RUSSIAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY" (MOSCOW, 1955). IT WAS INTENDED TO SERVE AS A INTRODUCTION TO THE GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE LANGUAGE AND AS AN AID TO USERS OF THE DICTIONARY, RATHER THAN A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE GRAMMATICAL FORMS AND CATEGORIES OF PASHTO. THIS TRANSLATION IS OF VALUE TO LINGUISTS AND IRANISTS AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE RUSSIAN CONTRIBUTION TO IRANIAN LINGUISTICS AS WELL AS AN ALTERNATE DESCRIPTION OF A LANGUAGE WHICH HAS NOT BEEN EXTENSIVELY STUDIED. MAJOR CHAPTERS INCLUDE PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND BASIC INFORMATION ON SYNTAX. APPENDED ARE SHORT SECTIONS ON ARABIC BORROWINGS AND VERB CONJUGATION. THROUGHOUT THIS TRANSLATION THE CYRILLIC TRANSCRIPTION OF THE RUSSIAN ORIGINAL HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A ROMAN TRANSCRIPTION CORRESPONDING WITH THAT USED BY BOTH CHAVARRIA-AGUILAR AND PENZL IN THEIR PASHTO TEXTS. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED AS PART III OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS, VOLUME 30, NUMBER 3, JULY 1964. IT IS AVAILABLE FOR $3.00 AS PUBLICATION 33 FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH CENTER IN ANTHROPOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND LINGUISTICS, RAYL HOUSE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 47401. (JD)