Grammatik der Altbaktrischen Sprache / / Friedrich Spiegel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Spiegel, Friedrich,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: German
• Series: Kiraz Historical Grammars Archive
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Vorrede. --; Inhalt. --; I. Capitel. Zeichenlehre. --; II. Capitel. Lautlehre. --; III. Capitel. Lautgesetze. --; IV. Capitel. Wortbildung. --; V. Capitel. Plexionslehre. --; VI. Capitel. Syntax. --; Anhang. Der Gâthâdialekt. --; Sehlussbemerkungen. --; Zusätze und Verbesserungen.
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463214975; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463214975
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Friedrich Spiegel.

A crucial stopping-point on the road to the early understanding of the Avestan language, Spiegel’s work was an early European attempt to comprehend this ancient and complex language. One of the two oldest languages of Iran, Avestan is probably best known as the language of the Zoroastrian Avesta. This historic grammar of the language has an extensive introduction to the writing system, the phonetics of the language and the rules of how the sounds are pronounced. He discusses the way words are constructed and inflection before moving on to a considerable discussion of syntax. There is also an appendix on the Gatha dialect of the language.