Werner Sundermann

Werner Sundermann (December 23, 1935 – October 12, 2012) was a German philosopher and Iranologist. He is remembered for his studies in Iranian languages and Manichaeism: in particular, he discovered the exact etymology of the term Tajik, which, according to him, comes from a Parthian pronunciation of the Arabic word Ṭāya (Syriac: Ṭayāyē).

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