Katayun Mazdapour (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

:کتایون مزداپور)(born March 22, 1943) is an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

linguist and a leading researcher in the realm of

Old Iranian Languages The Iranian languages or Iranic languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau. The Iranian languages are grouped ...

. She studied in Anoushiravan Dadgar high school in Tehran and received her bachelors, masters, and PhD from the University of Tehran. She was advised by Mehdi Aboulghasemi and co-advised by

Mehrdad Bahar Mehrdād Bahār ( fa, مهرداد بهار) (b. 1929, in Tehran; d. 13 November 1994, in Tehran) was a prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian. Early life Mehrdad Bahar, was the youngest son of Persian poet Mohammad Tagh ...

. In 1981, she joined the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies as an assistant research professor and she retired as a professor in 2012 from the same institution. In 1997, she won the title of Iranian Researcher of the Year, because of her book ''The Dialect of Zoroastrians of Yazd (In Persian)''. Her book, ''Word and its Meaning, from Middle Persian to Modern Persian,'' won the prestigious award of Iran’s Book of the Year Awards.

Publications

* ''Dāstān-i Garshāsb, Tahmūras va Jamshīd, Gulshāh va matnhā-yi dīgar : barʹrasī-i dastnivīs-i M.Ū. 2'', 1999 * ''Andarznamahʹhā-yi irānī'', 2007

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazdapour, Katayun 1943 births Living people Linguists from Iran Linguists of Persian Iranian Zoroastrians 20th-century Iranian writers 20th-century Iranian women writers Zoroastrian studies scholars