Within the Parsi community, many have not seen the script; prayer books are typically printed in the English Roman script or Gujarati. A new Avestan script was introduced in sixth century AD ...

The language of a large chunk of prayers of Zoroastrians is in a barely known language called Avestan. Another significant number of texts are in a language called Pahlavi — both languages have ...

Anquetil-Duperron intended to gain knowledge of eastern religions, learn eastern languages, especially Sanskrit and Avestan, and, if possible, collect their manuscripts. Avestan, a very old ...