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Definition of Avestan

Avestan
Avestan A*ves"tan, a. Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. -- n. The language of the Avesta; -- less properly called Zend.

Meaning of Avestan from wikipedia

- Avestan (/əˈvɛstən/ ə-VESS-tən) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It was...
- The Avestan period (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE) is the period in the history of the Iranians when the Avesta was produced. It saw important contributions to...
- Zoroastrianism, in which all texts are composed in the Avestan language and are written in the Avestan alphabet. It was compiled and redacted during the late...
- Avestan characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Avestan characters. The Avestan alphabet...
- Avestan geography refers to the investigation of place names in the Avesta and the attempt to connect them to real-world geographical sites. It is connected...
- Iranian languages are Old Persian (from the Achaemenid Empire) and Old Avestan (the language of the Avesta). Of the Middle Iranian languages, the better...
- transcription delimiters. This article deals with the phonology of Avestan. Avestan is one of the Iranian languages and retained archaic voiced alveolar...
- Christianity, and Islam. He spoke an Eastern Iranian language, named Avestan by scholars after the corpus of Zoroastrian religious texts written in...
- name of an Indo-Iranian divinity that predates the Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra. The names, and some characteristics, of these established deities...
- during the Middle Iranian era (4th century BC to 9th century AD). The Avestan language is often classified as early Eastern Iranian. As opposed to the...