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Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as ariya (Iranian).
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The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as...
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Old Persian is one of the oldest Indo-European languages...
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Old Persian was the administrative language of the early Achaemenian dynasty, dating from the 6th century bce, and an eastern Middle Indo-Aryan dialect was the language of the chancellery of the Mauryan emperor Aśoka in the Indian subcontinent in the mid-3rd century bce. The Indo-Iranian…
Old Persian is an Indo-European language and as such is related to Old Indian, Hittite, Latin, Greek, and the modern Indo-European languages. It belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages and, naturally, to the Iranian family within this branch.
The Achaemenid Empire, or Persian Empire, [3] (550–330 BC) was the first Persian Empire to rule over significant portions of Greater Persia (or Iran ). It followed the Median Empire as the second great empire of the Iranian peoples. [4]
The Persian language has been written with a number of different scripts during its history including the Old Persian Cuneiform (e.g. Bistoon inscription of the Achaemenid Darius I) and Middle Persian (Pahlavi) alphabets (e.g. Husrō ī kavādān ud rēdak-ē ( خسرو قبادان و ریدک) written from the period of the Sassanian king Khosrow).
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