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Detailed explanation-1: -Today, Avestan is most commonly typeset in the Gujarati script (Gujarati being the traditional language of the Indian Zoroastrians).

Detailed explanation-2: -Avestan is the language of the earliest sacred texts belonging to the Zoroastrian religion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Avesta is most closely related to Baluchi, Kurdish, Pashto, and the extinct language of Sogdian. It is somewhat more distantly related to Old Persian and Persian. The language’s name comes from the Avesta, the holy book in the Zoroastrian religion.

Detailed explanation-4: -Avestan and Old Persian are the two languages comprising Old Iranian, and while Avestan was localized in the northeastern parts of Greater Iran according to Paul Maximilian Tedesco (1921), other scholars have favored regarding Avestan as originating in eastern parts.

Detailed explanation-5: -Avesta, also called Zend-avesta, sacred book of Zoroastrianism containing its cosmogony, law, and liturgy, the teachings of the prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster). The extant Avesta is all that remains of a much larger body of scripture, apparently Zarathushtra’s transformation of a very ancient tradition.