Avestan and Old Persian

Students are introduced to the Iranian language group and its place within Indo-European languages. This is followed by an overview of the Old-Iranian grammar in confrontation with the Vedic grammatical system and its Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European background. Students learn the basics of phonology, and familiarize themselves with the formation and declension of nouns and adjectives, with pronouns and cardinal numbers, personal and impersonal verbal forms, and basic syntax. Students are encouraged to use and expand the acquired knowledge of the descriptive and diachronic grammar of Avestan and Old Persian by careful analytical reading of selected original texts.

• K. Hoffmann-B. Forsmann: Avestische Laut- und Flexionslehre. COBISS.SI-ID - 16590690
• T. Goto, Old Indo-Aryan Morphology and its Indo-Iranian Background. Wien, 2013. COBISS.SI-ID - 65337954
• J. Martínez, M. de Vaan: Introduction to Avestan. Leiden, Boston, 2014. https://search-ebscohost-com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login.aspx?direct=tru…
• W. Brandenstein, M. Mayrhofer: Handbuch des Altpersischen. Wiesbaden, 1964. COBISS.SI-ID 164600835
• R. G. Kent: Old Persian Grammar, Texts, Lexicon. 2. izd. New Haven, 1953. COBISS.SI-ID 165976579
• Kellens, J.; Pirart, E.: Les textes vieil-avestiques I–III. Wiesbaden, 1988–1991. COBISS.SI-ID 165548803, COBISS.SI-ID 165551875, COBISS.SI-ID 165554947
• Kellens, J.: Le verbe avestique. Wiesbaden, 1984. COBISS.SI-ID - 56173666
• H. Humbach, P. Ichaporia: The Heritage of Zarathushtra: a new translation of His Gathas. Heidelberg, 1994. COBISS.SI-ID - 164205827
• R. Schmitt: Wörterbuch der altpersischen Königsinschriften. Wiesbaden, 2014. COBISS.SI-ID - 64329058
• R. Schmitt: Compendium linguarum Iranicarum. Wiesbaden, 1989. COBISS.SI-ID - 14321762
• Ch. Bartholomae: Altiranisches Wörterbuch. Berlin, de Gruyter. COBISS.SI-ID - 56564066
• J. Cheung: Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb. Leiden, 2007. COBISS.SI-ID - 42020450