ISO 639-3 · aveave
Indo-European family · extinct or historical language
Avestan
Avestan is an extinct or historical language of the Eastern Iranian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Wikidata describes it as “Eastern Iranian language used in Zoroastrian scripture”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ave- ISO 639-1
ae- Glottocode
aves1237- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 10 Extinct
- Wikipedia
- 99 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
10EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Avestan |
|---|---|
| Also called | Zend, Old Bactrian, Avestan language, ae |
| All speakers | 0 |
| Written in | Avestan |
| Grammatical cases | 8 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | extinct or historical language |
Vitality
EGIDS 10 Extinct10
Dormant or extinct. No fluent first-language speakers remain — EGIDS 9 and 10.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Avestan
The branches above Avestan, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Iran
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