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TITUS Didactica: Avestan Time Reckoning - English
URL: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/iran/avest/avestkal.htm

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Names of days, festivities, etc. in Avestan. With text samples.

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Avestan alphabet - English
URL: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/avestan.htm

The Avestan alphabet was created in the 3rd century AD for writing the hymns of Zarathustra (a.k.a Zoroaster). Many of the letters are derived from the old Pahlavi alphabet of Persia, which itself was derived from the Aramaic alphabet. Greek influence, in the form of the full representation of vowel sounds, is also present.

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Avesta, zoroastrian language, avestan language - English
URL: http://www.perlit.sailorsite.net/avesta.html

This page is about the Avestan Language (the language of the sacred book of Zoroaster, the ancient prophet of Iran.

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AncientScripts.com: Avestan Script - English
URL: http://www.ancientscripts.com/avestan.html

Avestan was an Iranian language with which the earliest Zoroastrian hymns were orally transmitted. By the 3rd century CE an alphabet was created to write down the hymns. The alphabet was modelled on the Pahlavi script which recorded Middle Persian (3rd century BCE to 9th century CE), and which in turn was derived from Aramaic.

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Avestan language - English
URL: http://indoeuro.bizland.com/tree/iran/avestan.html

Avestan is well researched and known. It unites two dialects: the main difference of them is the unvoiced and voiced groups of consonants in the word. As a whole, the language is characterized by the brightly expressed inflection type of declension and verb conjugation, synthetic type of morphology, free word order in the sentence. It differs from Old Persian in a better preservance of inflections and endings of the word.

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IL&S: Avestan Language and Script - English
URL: http://iranianlanguages.com/avestan/

TThe Avesta is the bible and prayer-book of the Zarathushtrian (Zoroastrian in the West) religion. It is the oldest Iranian writing. The exact time of its creation is not known. However, its roots are considered to go back to the second millennium BC. Zarathushtra (or Zoroaster ), the prophet of this religion, emerged from a corner of Iran to preach a new gospel.

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IL&S: Bibliography of Avestan Language Resources - English
URL: http://iranianlanguages.com/avestan/avestan_biblio.htm

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Overview of the Avestan language - English
URL: http://www.avesta.org/alang.htm

Part of Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives.

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