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Old Persian

language of Achaemenid Empire and ancestor of Middle Persian

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Details

Instance of: natural language, historical language
Subclass of: Southwestern Iranian, Old Iranian
Followed by: Middle Persian
Country: Achaemenid Empire, Iran
Said to be the same as: Proto-Iranian
indigenous to: Fars Province
studied by: Iranian studies
topic's main category: Category:Old Persian language
Wikimedia language code: peo
writing system: Old Persian cuneiform

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