Bundar Razi was an Iranian poet of the 10th and 11th-centuries, who composed poetry in

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and his own local dialect. A native of Ray, Bundar served at the court of the

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ruler

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(). According to the modern historian Hassan Rezai Baghbidi, while the local dialect that Bundar wrote in has been called Fahlawi or even

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, it is in reality the

Razi dialect The Razi dialect was a northwestern Iranian language spoken in the city of Ray, located on the southern slopes of the Alborz mountain range situated near Tehran, the capital of Iran. It was most likely a continuation of the Median language. The l ...

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* * * * {{Encyclopaedia Iranica , volume=9 , fascicle=2 , title = Fahlavīyāt , last = Tafazzoli , first = Ahmad , url = https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fahlaviyat , pages = 158–162 Buyid-period poets 10th-century Iranian people 11th-century Iranian people People from Ray, Iran