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OLD PERSIAN AND OLD IRANIAN.Old Persian and Avestan are the two oldest known Iranian languages. They were both spoken several centuries B.C.E. Together they make up the the oldest stratum of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language group. The Indic, or Indo-Aryan, branch is represented by Old Indic, known from the "Rigveda" and later literature in Sanskrit. The Indo-Iranian group, finally, is but one branch of the Indo-European language group, to which most European languages belong. Old Persian was the language of a group of Iranians who in the Achaemenid period settled in the area of modern F ̋rs [Fars], which the Greek historians and geographers called Persis, an area under Elamite control with its capital at Anzan/Anπan. We do not know when or how the Old Persian-speaking tribes came from Central Asia to southwest Iran, where they are found in the historical period. The only clue is the mention of the Parsuwa in the area of Lake Van in the records of Ashurnasirpal (883-859 B.C.E.); in 835 B.C.E.Shalmaneser (858-824 B.C.E.) is said to have received tributes from 27 kings of Parsuwa. The extant Old Persian texts all date from the 6th to the 4th century. [From the Introduc

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Author

Prods Oktor Skjærvø, from Harvard

Published

2005

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Language