The Old Iranian languages were spoken in the 1st millennium BCE by Iranian tribes of Asia. This family included attested Old Persian from Achaemenid inscriptions, Avestan from Zoroastrian traditions, and other unattested languages such as Median and Saka (Scythian).
References
edit- Oktor Skjarva, Prods (2009), "Old Iranian", in Windfuhr, Gernot (ed.), The Iranian Languages, London and Newyork: Routledge, pp. 43–195, ISBN 9780700711314