Old Persian language

Old Persian
Old Persian
Region	Ancient Iran
Era	evolved into Middle Persian by c. 300 BC
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Old Persian; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Old Persian cuneiform
Language codes
ISO 639-2	peo
ISO 639-3	peo
Linguist List	peo
Glottolog	oldp1254
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The Old Persian language is one of two Old Iranian languages. The other is Avestan). Old Persian was used during the Achaemenid era (c. 600 BC to 300 BC). Examples of Old Persian have been found in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt.^[1]