Old Persian Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Old Persian is the most ancient source of the Modern Persian Language. It is written from left to right in a kind of Cuneiform script. Old Persian cuneiform contains 36 signs which represent consonants, vowels or sequences of single consonants plus vowels, a set of five numbers, one word divider, and eight ideograms.This language was used in the inscriptions of the Achaemenid kings. Old Persian texts (including inscriptions, tablets and seals) have been found in Iran, Turkey and Egypt.
While the shapes of some Old Persian letters may look similar to signs in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, it is clear that only one of them, LA, was borrowed from Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform LA, and that because LA is a foreign sign used to represent a sound not used in the Old Persian language. Scholars today agree that the character inventory of Old Persian was newly-invented for the purpose of providing monumental inscriptions of the Achaemenid king, Darius I;, by about 525 BCE.
See also: Persian language and Behistun Inscription
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