Avestan

Avestan
Region	Eastren Iranian Plateau
Ethnicity	Airya
Era	Airn Age, Late Bronze Age
Leid faimily	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Avestan; ; ;
Writin seestem	No native script; Avestan alphabet (Pahlavi script; independent ad-hoc development); Gujarati script (uised bi the Indian Zoroastrians)
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ae
ISO 639-2	ave
ISO 639-3	ave
Glottolog	aves1237
Linguasphere	58-ABA-a
	Yasna 28.1, Ahunavaiti Gatha (Bodleian MS J2)
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Avestan, umwhile an aa kent as "Zend", is an Iranian leid o the Eastren Iranian diveesion, kent anly frae its uise as the leid o Zoroastrian scriptur, i.e. the Avesta, frae which it derives its name.

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Avestan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

[Glottolog-1] Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Avestan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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