Derivational Suffixes in Škand Gumānīg Wizār

Škand Gumānīg Wizār is a Pahlavi polemical text of the ninth century CE, when that language had lost its former political support, while its daily usage among people was declining, and Arabic and Persian were gradually replacing it in all respects. In such a time, the author of this work, while avoiding loan words to express complex concepts, began to write this polemical book, and of course, he was wonderfully successful in accomplishing this task. This raises the question as to whether the Pahlavi suffixes, used in this text, were of especial type quantitatively and qualitatively. Research on this text reveals the suffixes used by the author were far less than Persian suffixes, while all but one or two were used in Persian.