Language code: ae

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ae

The table below provides technical details for the Avestan language, designated by the ae code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ae

Name

Official

Avestan

Native

Avesta

Family
Indo-Iranian
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Old (Gathic) AvestanYoung (Younger) Avestan
Related languages
Old PersianMiddle Persian (Pahlavi)ParthianSogdianBactrian
Key facts
Extinct liturgical language of ZoroastrianismManuscripts were written between the 9th–13th centuries CE but preserve much older oral materialUses a 53-character alphabet specifically devised to record its phonologyRetains numerous archaic Indo-Iranian features that parallel Vedic SanskritThe surviving corpus totals roughly 200,000 words contained chiefly in the Avesta
Sample phrase

𐬀𐬯𐬛𐬀 𐬵𐬀𐬊, 𐬯𐬀𐬒 𐬀𐬕𐬀 𐬌𐬀?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Avestan is primarily used as the scriptural language of Zoroastrianism. It is assumed that this language is not widely spoken today and that it is only studied and used in religious contexts by Zoroastrian communities.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Avestan speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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