Avestan language

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• Avestan language — Avestan Spoken in Liturgical language of Zoroastrianism Extinct 1st millennium; still used as liturgical language Language family Indo European Indo Iranian …   Wikipedia

• Avestan language — Eastern Iranian language of the Avesta, the sacred book of Zoroastrianism. The oldest portion of the Avesta, the Gathas, are now commonly thought to date from around the end of the 2nd millennium BC and are thus contemporary with Vedic Sanskrit.… …   Universalium

• Avestan alphabet — Avestan Type Alphabet Languages Avestan language, Middle Persian …   Wikipedia

• language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …   Universalium

• Avestan — A*ves tan, a. Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. n. The language of the Avesta (an ancient Iranian language); less properly called {Zend}. Syn: Zend [Webster 1913 Suppl.] || …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Avestan — [ə ves′tən] n. the Iranian language in which the Avesta was written: it is closely related to Old Persian adj. of the Avesta or Avestan …   English World dictionary

• Avestan — Eastern Iranian language that survived in sacred texts centuries after it went extinct, from Persian Avesta sacred books of the Parsees, earlier Avistak, lit. books …   Etymology dictionary

• Avestan — adj. of or pertaining to Avestan ancient Iranian language; of or pertaining to the Avesta n. ancient Iranian language in which the holy books of Zoroastrianism were written …   English contemporary dictionary

• language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… …   English dictionary for students

• Language and ethnicity of Kambojas — The Kambojas of Indian literature have been speculated to have been an Iranian people, perhaps cognate with the later Indo Scythians or Sakas.History of the hypothesisBased on Yaska s Nirukta and a gatha from Buddhist Bhuridatta Jataka , one… …   Wikipedia

• Avestan — noun Date: 1856 an ancient Iranian language in which the sacred books of Zoroastrianism were written see Indo European languages table • Avestan adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary