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= 𐎠𐎼𐎹 Old Persian =

== Dictionaries ==
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! Resource
! Description
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://books.google.com/books?id=sK8IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Old Persian Inscription Lexicon]
| A very old book, but still useful!
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/opeol-MG-X.html Old Persian Master Glossary]
| From the now-legendary University of Texas project.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/opeol-BF-X.html Old Persian Base Form Dictionary]
| Part of the same project.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/opeol-EI-X.html Old Persian-English Meaning Index]
| The last part of the UTexas project.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/OldPersian Old Persian Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon]
| In this book you get--you guessed it--grammar, texts, and a lexicon.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/cu31924026893150 Ancient Persian lexicon]
| With the text of inscriptions.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/CuneiformSupplement Cuneiform supplement to the lexicon]
| Accompanies the lexicon above.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/guidetooldpersia00tolmuoft Guide to the Old Persian inscriptions]
| Even older than the grammar!
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/somecriticalsupp00tolmiala Critical notes to the Old Persian inscriptions]
| Once again, accompanies the resource above.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/diealtpersischen00spieuoft German-Old Persian dictionary]
| A very old book in PDF form.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/diekeilinschrift00weis Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden]
| A book in German about the inscriptions.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.rabbinics.org/pahlavi/MacKenzie-PahlDict.pdf Pahlavi Dictionary]
| Pahlavi is a middle Iranian form of the language.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/AnEtymologicalDictionaryOfPersianEnglishAndOtherIndo-europeanLanguages An Etymological Dictionary of Persian]
| And of other languages.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/steingass/ Persian-English dictionary]
| Could be useful, depending on how much you already know about Persian.
|-
|}

== Grammars ==
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! Resource
! Description
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/OldPersian/opcomplete.pdf An Introduction to Old Persian]
| A PDF online, available for free.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/OldPersian Old Persian Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon]
| In this book you get--you guessed it--grammar, texts, and a lexicon.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/aveol-0-X.html Old Iranian Lessons]
| With plenty of grammar. Old Iranian is a language family which includes Old Persian and Avestan.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/aveol-TC-X.html Old Iranian Grammar Points]
| A full list of the grammar covered on this page.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/historicalgramma00johnrich Historical grammar of the Persian language]
| The book is a bit historical as well.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/GrammarOfTheOldPersianLanguage Grammar of the Old Persian Language]
| Not sure, but this book looks like it was very small.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6122116t French Grammar of Old Persian]
| From the great Gallica website.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/tudesiranienne01darmuoft French Historical Grammar of Old Persian]
| The first part of a two-part series; see the Other Resources section for the second part.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/HandbuchDerAltiranischenDialekte German Handbook of Old Iranian]
| A comparative grammar, it looks like.
|-
|}

== Charts & Aids ==
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! Resource
! Description
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Persian#Nouns Old Persian Nouns]
| From Wikipedia.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Persian#Verbs Old Persian Verbs]
| Also from Wikipedia.
|-
|}

== Texts ==
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|-
! Resource
! Description
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/iran/airan/apers/apers.htm Old Persian Text Corpus]
| Scroll to the bottom and click the arrow in the right to go to the next page.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/OldPersian Old Persian Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon]
| In this book you get--you guessed it--grammar, texts, and a lexicon.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.livius.org/aa-ac/achaemenians/inscriptions.html Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions]
| A list of inscriptions.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.livius.org/be-bm/behistun/behistun01.html The Behistun Inscription]
| Soon to be a crappy movie with Nicholas Cage, no doubt.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://books.google.com/books?id=0lE-AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The Inscription at Behistun]
| An old book in PDF form.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm Old Persian texts with transliteration]
| A huge collection!
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/aveol-TC-X.html Old Iranian texts]
| The texts go with the grammar lessons, and have some annotations.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://web.stanford.edu/~truschke/primary-texts/persian-texts.html Persian texts]
| A collection of links for Persian texts (not Old Persian, it seems).
|-
|}

== Other Resources ==
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|-
! Resource
! Description
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://archive.org/details/tudesiraniennes02darmgoog French Historical Study of Iranian Culture]
| The second part of the two-part series; see the Grammar section for the first part.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/https://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/OldPersian/OPers5_End.pdf A History of Old Persian]
| This is the appendix to a full book.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.omniglot.com/writing/persian.htm Omniglot Persian]
| None of this is about Old Persian, but modern Persian could be interesting to some.
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20221113182410/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-i Old Persian Epigraphy]
| With a nice bibliography at the end.
|-
|}

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