Avestan is documented in use as a written language in Persia. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.
Source The World's Writing SystemsPeter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.)
Zoroastrian law gives the dog a status close to the human one, and the sagdid, the gaze of the dog, is required at a death.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Spoken in northwestern Iran.
Source Gorani language (Wikipedia)
Source Giants, Monsters and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and MythCarol Rose
Spoken in northwest and northeast Iran.
Source Kurmanji (Wikipedia)
Middle Persian is documented in use as a written language in Persia. Middle Persian, in its Book Pahlavi form, carries the bulk of the surviving Zoroastrian commentary literature. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.
Source The World's Writing SystemsPeter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.)
Old Avestan (Gathic) is documented in use as a written language in Persia. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.
Source The World's Writing SystemsPeter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.)
Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel of the Yazidis, and the peacock throne of the shahs.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Spoken and official in Iran, with Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Source Persian language (Wikipedia)
The roc is an Arabic and Persian traveller's marvel rather than a cult figure, carried in the wonder literature of both languages about the edges of the known world.
Source The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla)Anonymous (multiple compilers)
The cock of Zoroastrian tradition, whose crowing drives off the demons of the night.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Younger Avestan is documented in use as a written language in Persia. The claim is where the language is documented in use as a written, literary or liturgical language. It is not a claim about the full extent of its speakers, and it is not a claim about where the language originated.
Source The World's Writing SystemsPeter T. Daniels and William Bright (eds.)