The Iranian Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

This book has a lot of information about the Iranian languages. A comparison of Iranian languages with some information about the historical development of them is provided in chapter 2. Dialectology and Topics. Then there are detailed chapters about some Iranian languages, basically all the more major modern languages except for Ossetian, and also several of the minor languages, and also some ancient Iranian languages, including chapter 3. Old Iranian, which covers both Avestan and Old Persian. For each language there is a lot of detail about its phonology and grammar. Only chapter 14.a The Pamir Languages, is much more brief, with only a little information about each Pamir language, but at least there is also chapter 14.b Shughni, where one of the Pamir languages, Shughni, is described in detail. So it is a great book, the only disappointment is that the very unusual Ossetic language is missing.

This is a good book about the Iranian languages. Chapter 2 is called Dialectology and Topics, which gives a lot of info on the historical development of various Iranian languages, this is useful info for the historical linguistics of the Iranian languages. The following chapters have detailed information on a few ancient Iranian languages, and a few modern Iranian languages, including all the major ones, except for the interesting Ossetic language, about which even chapter 2 has very little information. But the chapters on the various languages have a lot of detail about each language, including phonology, morphology and syntax, and for some languages even a little information about their dialectology. Chapter 14a, The Pamir languages, is a little shorter, giving a little information about each Pamir language, but this is followed by Chapter 14b, which gives detailed information about one of the Pamir languages, Shughni. So in general, it is a very good book.