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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    August 2010
    November 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511706165
    9781108006613
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511706165
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.89kg, 96 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) was a Danish scholar who, having devoted the early part of his career to the Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon languages and literature, embarked upon a journey overland through Russia to India in search of the cradle of the Indo-European languages. He was delighted to rediscover the Avestan Zoroastrian texts preserved by the Parsis which Anquetil du Perron had first reported on sixty years earlier, and further Avestan materials, as well as a lively Zoroastrian community. On his return, he published, first in Danish and then in this German translation (1826), a thorough phonological and morphological analysis which showed that, contrary to the opinion of Anquetil's opponents, the Avestan language and its religious texts were neither a dim folk memory or a deliberate coinage based on Sanskrit, but a very ancient language, originating in Persia, and an important member of the Indo-European language family.

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