Old Persian language
language of Achaemenid Empire and ancestor of Middle Persian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Old Persian language is one of two Old Iranian languages. The other is Avestan). Old Persian was used during the Achaemenid era (c. 600 BC to 300 BC). Examples of Old Persian have been found in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt.[1]
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Old Persian | |
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Region | Ancient Iran |
Era | evolved into Middle Persian by c. 300 BC |
Indo-European
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Old Persian cuneiform | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | peo |
ISO 639-3 | peo |
Linguist List | peo |
Glottolog | oldp1254 |
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