Surviving Pahlavi Dialect: Awramani

This Middle Iranian Language still survives among Awramani Kurds deep in the mountains of Kermanshah in the city of Pahveh, near the Iraqi border.  Awramani Kurds also inhabit the bordering region in Iraq.

I have been to Paveh in the winter, it is very beautiful, on the peak of one of the nearby mountains lie the ruins of one of the best preserved Zaroastrian temples in Iran, it was inaccessible due to the snowy terrain and would have taken several hours to reach regardless.

Iranologists should take a deep interest in this area as it will provide much more information about the Pahlavi language, a derivative of Median.

No, Pahlavi is the pretentious name Reza Shah gave himself after the Pahlavi language of the Parthians/Sassanids, a middle Iranian tongue. 

That is nonsense.

I am from Kermanshah and I have both Kurdish and Persian blood.

The Kurdish languages are less afflicted with Arabic.  You should also realise that most Kurdish TV channels broadcast in Arabic and Assyrian (sounds like Arabic) too.  Some Iraqi Kurds speak their language with an Arabic accent, often gutteralising the "H" sound.

Kurdish dialects are far closer Middle Iranian languages than Modern Persian and that is why this Middle Iranian language (pure) survives among Kurds.

Modern Kurds are descended from many peoples, including Median, Persian, Hurrian and Armenian. 

It is nonsense that they are more Arabized. Considering that "Arabised" can only be used in a linguistic context.

I said pure in terms of language, that is it [Awrimani] is a purer form of Iranian language than Persian.

How about Naini? Isn't that a relatively close descendent of Old Persian? My father's Naini and it doesn't sound very much like Modern Iranian

There's a project currently underway by these researchers from the US to preserve Dari, from Yazd and I think Kerman, but more concentrated on Yazd, they're going to document vocab., grammar, etc and hopefully publish it

Arash 

Awramani isn't just close to Pahlavi, it IS a Pahlavi dialect.

I found this on Sangesari.

http://www.geocities.com/indoeurop/tree/iran/sangesari.html

That is indeed interesting and extraordinary, so Awramani and Sangesari must be pretty close to each other considering both are Pahlavi dialects, I wish a detailed study, by Iranians in Iran, was conducted on such languages. 

Zaza (Dimli) is very close to Awramani too, both are Gorani languages.

I know that the Middle Persian language replaced Pahlavi as the official language in Iran when the Sassanids took power, are there any dialects of Middle Persian still surviving?

I think you should go on one of your famous trips, this time to Kermanshah and visit Pahveh and other historical sites, Cyrus.

No one is claiming that Pahlavi is Kurdish.

Kurds are an Iranic people, they are more rural than Persians and others, their language has been less affected by the change of time and this particular mentioned language (Awramani) is actually a dialect of Pahlavi.

(There are many Kurdish languages, only the Gorani group is Middle Iranian Pahlavi)

The Sassanians actually spoke Middle Persian which is different from Pahlavi. 

Just for your information, it is recorded that Ardashir (first Sassanid King) was found among Kurdish shepherds by Papak, the Satrap of Parsa (Persis).

Also don't forget Bisotoon (Behistun) - Taghe Bostan - Temple of Anahita at Kangavar.

At the foot of Mount Bisotun, on the sheer cliff, there is a 200m x 40m surface shaved from the cliff face, this was going to apparently be the site of a great relief which did not come to fruition - the local legend has it that it was made by Farhad as part of his work for Shirin the legend lives on in song among the locals.