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What was the language of the Scythians and Pahlavans?

When they took over it was Pahlavi.

I think when the Selucids controlled Iran it was still Aramaic though, so when Antiochus, who believed that the language was still Akkadian, made a proclamation in Akkadian, nobody understood him.

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

What was the language of the Scythians and Pahlavans?

Well the Scythians did not write. But they all spoke a form of Iranian language.

Strictly speaking, wouldn't Iranian language be quite inaccurate? Since Semitic languages didn't actually just develop in Persia and then leave, it was more a complete Western Asian language instead of just Persian.

No. Because more than just the Iranians in what is today Iran refered to themselves as Iranian, or Aryan. For example, Alan is likely a form of Aryan. And the term Aryan was often used to denote Iranian culture and people, but it is more commonly reffered to as Indo-Iranian.
The Iranians who settled in Iran gave it the name because that was the name of their people. But other people reffered to themselves as the same term, even though they lived elsewhere.

Sorry, I'm only familiar with the term Aryan.