AVESTA

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1. TEACH YOURSELF. AVESTA . A beginner s guide to the SCRIPT, GRAMMAR & language . of the Zoroastrian scriptural texts By Ramiyar Parvez Karanjia June 2011. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Contents 4. I. THE AVESTAN ALPHABET ........................................ ........................................ .......... 5. 1. The Avestan characters (1) ........................................ ........................................ ........... 7. 2. The Alphabets (2) ........................................ ........................................ ......................... 8. 3. The Alphabets (3) ........................................ ........................................ ......................... 9. 4.

4 Introduction Avesta, originally a language of the ancient Indo-Iranian stock of languages, is presently the language of the Zoroastrian scriptures.

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