Langenesis

Indo-European family

Old Persian

550 BCE – 330 BCE Classical

Old Persian (550 BCE – 330 BCE) is a classical Indo-European language. It has 4 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Iranian → Old Persian.

See Old Persian on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
peo
Glottocode
oldp1254

Recorded in the cuneiform inscriptions of the Achaemenid Empire (Darius I, Xerxes), most famously at Behistun. Used alongside Elamite and Babylonian as one of the three administrative languages.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Old Persian550 BCE – 330 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 16

Also descended from Proto-Iranian.

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