Rise of the Persians
The Ancients
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The Avesta, the Language of the Avesta
There aren't really many written texts that we have from this period at all. The language of the avesta bears so many similarities with languages like sanscrit in particular, you know. So there we really see how the ancient indic people who settle in northern india and the iranians who move into the iranian plateau really do come from the same ethnic and certainly the same linguistic line as well.
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