This Introduction to Avestan provides a concise grammar of the Avestan language, including information on the language history and short text samples with a glossary.
Michiel de Vaan, Ph.D. (2002), is Associate Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University (The Netherlands). His publications include The Avestan Vowels and Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (2008).Javier Martínez, Ph.D. (1994), is Professor of Greek Linguistics at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He has published widely on Indo-Iranian and Ancient Greek, and has been editor of three different volumes concerning Forgery in Classical Literature.
