Say, Iran’s revised ancient Middle Eastern language (8)
I believe the answer is:
assyrian
'ancient middle eastern language' is the definition.
'assyrian' can be an answer for 'language' (Assyrian is an example). I am unsure of the 'ancient middle eastern' bit.
'say iran's revised' is the wordplay.
'revised' is an anagram indicator.
'say'+'irans'='sayirans'
'sayirans' anagrammed gives 'ASSYRIAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for assyrian that I've seen before include "one in Iraq once" , "Old middle eastern type" , "The - came down like the wolf on the fold (Byron)" , "ancient language" , "race" .)