A brief history of IndiaArchived 2016-12-24 at the वेबैक मशीन, Alain Daniélou, Kenneth Hurry, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 2003, ISBN 978-0-89281-923-2, ... The language of the Indian Aryans, Vedic Sanskrit, is the oldest of the languages known as Indo-European, of which written documents and spoken forms exist ...
Hamid Wahed Alikuzai (2013). A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes. Trafford. पृ॰ 44. आई॰ऍस॰बी॰ऍन॰978-1-4907-1441-7. मूल से 14 फ़रवरी 2017 को पुरालेखित. अभिगमन तिथि 12 अप्रैल 2020.;Quote "The Avestan language is called Avestan because the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism, Avesta, were written in this old form. Avestan died out long before the advent of Islam and except for scriptural use not much has remained of it."
Aufsätze zur Indoiranistik: Volume 3Archived 2019-09-29 at the वेबैक मशीन, Karl Hoffmann, Johanna Narten, Reichert, 1992, ISBN 978-3-88226-532-3, ... Avestan Language. III. The grammar of Avestan: 'The morphology of Avestan nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs is, like that of the closely related Old Persian, inherited from Proto-Indo-European via Proto-Indo-Iranian (Proto-Aryan), and agrees largely with that of Vedic, the oldest known form of Indo-Aryan. The interpretation of the transmitted Avestan texts presents in many cases considerable difficulty for various reasons, both with respect to their contexts and their grammar. Accordingly, systematic comparison with Vedic is of much assistance in determining and explaining Avestan grammatical forms ...
A practical grammar of the Sanskrit languageArchived 2015-01-19 at the वेबैक मशीन, Sir Monier Monier-Williams, Clarendon Press, 1864, ... An Ardha-visarga ... sometimes employed before k,kh and p,ph. Before the two former letters this symbol is properly called Jihva-muliya, and the organ of its enunciation said to be the root of the tongue ...
Sociolinguistic perspectives: papers on language in society, 1959-1994, Charles Albert Ferguson, Thom Huebner, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 9780195092905, ... This weakened variant, also spelled with visarga, is described by grammarians as a weak voiceless fricative that varies in place of constriction in accordance with the following consonant: labial before /p, ph/, retroflex before /ṣ, ṭ, ṭh/, palatal before /ś, č, čh/, and velar before /k, kh/ ...
A brief history of IndiaArchived 2016-12-24 at the वेबैक मशीन, Alain Daniélou, Kenneth Hurry, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 2003, ISBN 978-0-89281-923-2, ... The language of the Indian Aryans, Vedic Sanskrit, is the oldest of the languages known as Indo-European, of which written documents and spoken forms exist ...
Hamid Wahed Alikuzai (2013). A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes. Trafford. पृ॰ 44. आई॰ऍस॰बी॰ऍन॰978-1-4907-1441-7. मूल से 14 फ़रवरी 2017 को पुरालेखित. अभिगमन तिथि 12 अप्रैल 2020.;Quote "The Avestan language is called Avestan because the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism, Avesta, were written in this old form. Avestan died out long before the advent of Islam and except for scriptural use not much has remained of it."
Aufsätze zur Indoiranistik: Volume 3Archived 2019-09-29 at the वेबैक मशीन, Karl Hoffmann, Johanna Narten, Reichert, 1992, ISBN 978-3-88226-532-3, ... Avestan Language. III. The grammar of Avestan: 'The morphology of Avestan nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs is, like that of the closely related Old Persian, inherited from Proto-Indo-European via Proto-Indo-Iranian (Proto-Aryan), and agrees largely with that of Vedic, the oldest known form of Indo-Aryan. The interpretation of the transmitted Avestan texts presents in many cases considerable difficulty for various reasons, both with respect to their contexts and their grammar. Accordingly, systematic comparison with Vedic is of much assistance in determining and explaining Avestan grammatical forms ...
A practical grammar of the Sanskrit languageArchived 2015-01-19 at the वेबैक मशीन, Sir Monier Monier-Williams, Clarendon Press, 1864, ... An Ardha-visarga ... sometimes employed before k,kh and p,ph. Before the two former letters this symbol is properly called Jihva-muliya, and the organ of its enunciation said to be the root of the tongue ...
