Awestisches Elementarbuch / Avestan elementary book

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter Heidelberg
Date: 1908 (1967)
Pages: 540
Target language: Avestan
Source language: GermanGerman grammar and textbook (contains the selection of the avestan texts at the end, together with glossary) of the language known as Avestan, which is an Eastern Iranian language, once used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta. Part of the Indo-Iranian Language group which includes the Indian languages such as Sanskrit. Along with Old Persian, Avestan is one of the two oldest Iranian languages of which there is evidence.