Median

Properly the language of the ancient Medes, a people of the high country between Me so pot am i a and the Persian desert, only known through names and a few words, which show it to have been Aryan , and closely allied to ancient Persian . The term “Median” was at one time applied to the language of the third column of Achæmenian cuneiform inscriptions, but it is now admitted that this was a misnomer. On the real Median language, see Rawlinson: “Ancient Monarchies,” Media, vol. iii., pp. 137-156.     G. R.