Avestan geography - Wikipedia
网页Avestan geography refers to the investigation of place names in the Avesta and the attempt to connect them to real-world geographical sites. [1] [2] It is connected to but different from the cosmogony expressed in the Avesta, where place names primarily refer to mythical events or a cosmological order. [3]
Avestan - Wikipedia
网页Avestan (/ ə ˈ v ɛ s t ən / ə-VESS-tən) [1] is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the mid-2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BC). [f 1] They are known only from their conjoined use as the scriptural language of Zoroastrianism.
AVESTAN GEOGRAPHY – Encyclopaedia Iranica
网页2011年8月17日 · AVESTAN GEOGRAPHY. It is impossible to attribute a precise geographical location to the language of the Avesta. The Avestan texts, however, provide some useful pointers, while their comparison with Old Persian inscriptions offer further evidence: Geographical references in the Avesta are limited to the regions on the eastern Iranian plateau and ...
Introduction to Old Iranian - University of Texas at Austin
网页The term 'Old Iranian' is the designation for the sub-group of Indo-European languages which, between approximately 1350 and 350 B.C., spread across the Iranian plateau, an area bounded in the north by present-day Turkmenistan, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains, in the East by the Indus River, in the south by the Persian Gulf, and in ...
Airyanem Vaejah - Wikipedia
网页Airyanem Vaejah (Avestan: 𐬀𐬫𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬥𐬆𐬨 𐬬𐬀𐬉𐬘𐬀𐬵 Airyanəm Vaēǰah; Middle Persian: Ērān-wēz; Persian: Irānwēj; Parthian: Aryānwēžan, 'Expanse [note 1] of the Arya') is considered in Zoroastrianism to be the homeland of the early Iranians and the place where Zarathustra received the religion from ...
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Avestan language | Old Iranian language, Zoroastrianism, Indo …
网页Avestan language, eastern Iranian language of the Avesta, the sacred book of Zoroastrianism. Avestan falls into two strata, the older being that of the Gāthās, which reflects a linguistic stage (dating from c. 600 bc) close to that of Vedic Sanskrit in India. The greater part of the Avesta is written in a more recent form of the language and ...
Avestan (Chapter 6) - The Ancient Languages of Asia and the …
网页2010年9月1日 · Avestan is a member of the Indo-European language family. It is the most richly attested ancient member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of that family. As such, it is closely related to the Sanskrit language (which represents the most archaic member of the Indic subgroup of Indo-Iranian; see Ch. 2).
ADA : Avestan Digital Archive • Institute of Iranian Studies ...
网页The Avestan Digital Archive (ADA) seeks to be a digital archive containing all Avestan manuscripts spread all over the world. The Avesta, the holy book of the Zoroastrian religion, was last edited at the end of the 90s of the 19th century by the German scholar K. …
Avestan - Wikiwand
网页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 Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BC). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scriptural language of Zoroastrianism.
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