Old Persian is the name given to the Persian tongue used in the Achamaenian dynasty's cuneiform inscriptions.
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- The middle era in the Iranian linguistic history began in the 3rd or 4th century BC and continued until the 9th century AD.
- The Avestan language belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
- Five and a half centuries separated the end of the Achamaenian empire and the beginning of the Sasanian dynasty.
- Modern Persian (or simply Persian) belongs to the new Iranian category of languages and differs very little grammatically from Dari Persian, out of which it has evolved.
- This common (old Iranian) language in turn belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
- This common (old Iranian) language in turn belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
- The Sogdian language is a branch of the eastern middle Iranian languages once spoken by a people of Iranian stock.
- Each phrase is progressively only a tiny bit more difficult than the last, and all are capable of being combined into a full conversation.
