Avestan, language belonging to the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. One of the earliest forms of the Iranian languages to survive, Avestan is also the tongue of the
Avesta, or scriptures of
Zoroastrianism. See
Indo-Iranianlanguages.
See A. V. W. Jackson, An Avestan Grammar in Comparison with Sanskrit (1968).
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