Avestan
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Avestan
- An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
- An alphabet which was developed based on Pahlavi scripts and used to write Avestan and Middle Persian languages.
- Synonym: Avestic
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Old Iranian language
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Avestan (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Avesta or Avestan.
- Synonym: Avestic
- Avestan geography
- 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization[1], page 113:
- We find, fortunately preserved in the extant Avestan texts, some material that gives us a vivid idea of the importance which the ancient Iranians attached to the fulfilment of contracts.
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of or pertaining to Avesta
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Further reading edit
- ISO 639-1 code ae, ISO 639-3 code ave (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Avestan, ave