Ricerc@Sapienza

I suggest a partial revision of MacKenzie's transcription of the Book Pahlavi script, with a special regard for the sequences ‹-lg› and ‹-lkꞌ› at the end of the word. In MacKenzie's approach these two spellings are interpreted in many different ways, without a clear distributional rule. In the approach suggested here two well-defined readings — respectively as [rg] and [rag/lag] — are established on the ground of synchronic morphology, etymology and the outcomes in New Persian.

A revision of MacKenzie's transcription of the Pahlavi script is suggested as regards the final sequences ‹-lg› and ‹-lk?›. While MacKenzie reads the two spellings in many different ways, without a clear distributional rule, the suggestion is to read them in two well-defined ways (respectively as [rg] and [rag/lag]), depending on the synchronic morphology, etymology and the outcomes in New Persian.