What Iranian Grammar is Most Beloved?

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What Iranian Grammar is Most Beloved?

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What grammar book of any dialect of any language in the Iranian family of the IE phylum do people here who are familiar love the most? And why?
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I have Lambton's 'Persian Grammar' which I found quite useful when I tried to learn a bit of Farsi. It's quite comprehensive and split into 'exercise-type' chapters, but not dumbed down in any way. It also uses romanization along with the native script (rather than adding tashkil).
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Davush wrote:I have Lambton's 'Persian Grammar' which I found quite useful when I tried to learn a bit of Farsi. It's quite comprehensive and split into 'exercise-type' chapters, but not dumbed down in any way. It also uses romanization along with the native script (rather than adding tashkil).
Good, my L2- That should make things a bit easier to understand. Thank you once again, Davush.
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Isfendil wrote:What grammar book of any dialect of any language in the Iranian family of the IE phylum do people here who are familiar love the most? And why?
I have Lambton's Persian Grammar as well, but I find L.P. Elwell-Sutton's Elementary Persian Grammar to be just as useful, if not easier to use (in my opinion); this book also uses romanization. They are both great references.

For more advanced learning and maintenance, Michael Craig Hillmann's Persian Grammar and Verbs is a wonderful resource and is what I use for practice and self-study.

Mr. Hillmann also created a free online resource for Persian grammar at the University of Texas - Austin website: Persian Online Resources
https://lortho.conlang.org

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