Learn Avesta at your own pace.
Avesta or Avestan is the mother language for French, German, English, Latin and many other languages. It's comparable to the Sanskrit language.
The companion website is a work in progress. It reflects only my own current understanding of the language. Feel free to contribute or raise issues if you find something wrong or have improvement to suggest : I'd love to get your insights.
Anyone who wants to learn Avesta with no prior knowledge.
Go to the companion website and start learning. The App is designed for a progressive and smooth learning experience. You will go through a set of interactive activities : the first one consist in manually exploring each character of the alphabet. Each time you reload the App, you will have a different set of characters to explore.
You can contribute in many ways. If you find something wrong or have improvement to suggest, please raise an issue or contribute.
My plan, is to provide on the website a set of interactive activities that will serve to train a neural network for automatic speech synthesis, speech recognition, text translation, etc... The idea will be to use existing tools given by Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence technologies to provide, in fine, some kind of personal mentor to the learner.
This vision is ambitious, and I hope to achieve it.
In this context, you can imagine that the current version of the App only scratches the surface of what I plan to do.
I would like to express my appreciation to a number of individuals and institutes, whose help and support contributed to make this project live:
Kersi B. Shroff who helped me to get in contact with Raham Asha, who in turns provided me his printed book Avesta - A Grammatical Précis;
Céline Redard and Almut Hintze from the SOAS University of London.