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Language code: ave

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ave

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The table below provides technical details for the Avestan language, designated by the ave code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ave

Name

Official

Avestan

Native

Avesta

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Old (Gathic) AvestanYounger Avestan
Related languages
Old PersianSogdianBactrianPashtoSanskrit
Key facts
Liturgical language of Zoroastrian scripture, the AvestaOne of the earliest recorded Iranian languages, dating roughly to the 2nd millennium BCENo native speakers today—known only from manuscripts and ritual recitationWritten in a distinctive alphabet with 53 characters developed during the Sassanian era to capture precise pronunciationShares many archaic phonological and grammatical features with Vedic Sanskrit.
Sample phrase

𐬇𐬵𐬀! 𐬵𐬀𐬊 𐬀𐬌𐬯𐬋 𐬀𐬑𐬀?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Avestan language, identified by the code ave, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Ancient' by its type.

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