Avestan is a member of the Iranian subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. Although its oldest manuscript dates to AD 1278, the texts may be dated even before the year 1000 BC. Its corpus consist of a collection of Zoroastrian religious and legal texts called Avesta.

The examples of adjective valence for Avestan are under construction.

Bibliography:

Hale, Mark. 2004. Avestan. In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the world’s ancient languages, 742-763.

Skjaervø, P. Oktor. 1995. 6. The Avesta as source for the early history of the Iranians. In Erdosy, George (ed.), The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia. Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity, 155-176. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

West, Martin. 2011. Old Avestan Syntax and Stylistics. With an edition of the texts. (ADW, 13.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.