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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to any of the Iranian languages, such as Pahlavi or Khotanese, spoken from about the first to the tenth century AD in areas of western and central Asia.
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The Avestan language is an Indo-Germanic tongue and belongs more specifically to the Iranian group, the other members being the Old Persian of the cuneiform inscriptions, the Pahlavi, and Pazend (or Middle Iranian), and the later dialects, New Persian, Kurdish, Afghan, etc. The
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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