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Avestan (/
əˈvɛstən/ ə-VESS-tən) is an
umbrella term for two Old
Iranian languages, Old
Avestan (spoken in the mid-2nd to 1st
millennium BC) and Younger...
- 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...
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Avestan characters.
Without proper rendering support, you may see
question marks, boxes, or
other symbols instead of
Avestan characters. The
Avestan alphabet...
- centuries. All
texts in the
Avesta are
composed in the
Avestan language and are
written in the
Avestan alphabet. The
oldest surviving fragment of a text dates...
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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...
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transcription delimiters. This
article deals with the
phonology of
Avestan.
Avestan is one of the
Iranian languages and
retained archaic voiced alveolar...
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Iranian languages are Old
Persian (from the
Achaemenid Empire) and Old
Avestan (the
language of the Avesta). Of the
Middle Iranian languages, the better...
- 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...
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Zoroastrianism (Persian: دین زرتشتی Dīn-e Zartoshtī), also
called Mazdayasnā (
Avestan: 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬯𐬥𐬀) or Beh-dīn (بهدین), is an
Iranian religion centred...
