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Categories: Eastern Iranian languages Avesta Extinct languages of Asia |
Summary Of: AvestanAvestan is one of the two oldest Iranian languages of which we have evidence... The Avestan language should not be confused with the... Gathic Avestan is an archaic language with a complicated grammar which consists of eight case forms and... widely differing dates for Avestan have been proposed... Young Avestan itself has two forms... form was probably a natural development of Old Avestan and was most likely also a spoken language up to the 8th century BCE... The Artificial Young Avestan however is a corrupt form of the language... Avestan is usually classified as... but phonological Eastern characteristics of Avestan such as this one have been suspected of being due to a phase of the... that can be asserted with confidence is that Avestan is not a... the only Old Iranian language besides Avestan known in any detail being... The original geographical location of Avestan is likewise uncertain... The Avestan sound differs from the later Old Persian chiefly by the larger inventory of vowels... Avestan has retained voiced sibilants...Encyclodia Page On: Avestan |
