Abstract
Linguistic typology focuses on both language universals and linguistic variations. Implicational universals in typology have semantic, pragmatic, discourse, processing and cognitive explanations. Typology has various uses in linguistics. Studying the structure of different languages, including ancient languages, can help completing the classification of languages. This article provides an overview of typological study about Avestan language. The purpose of this study was to determine the word order of Avestan language of Vandidad, based on Dryer's 24 typological components. This article focuses on the 15 percent of Geldner’s Vendidād Avesta based on Bartholomae transcription method. Research data are collected through three fargards of Vendidād Avesta, the second, third and sixth. The findings indicate that Avestan language of Vandidad, has 13 components of strong verb- final languages type and 15 components of strong verb-initial languages type comparing to genera containing languages of Europe and Asia, except for southeast Asia , and this language has also 13 components of strong verb-final languages type and 16 components of strong verb-initial languages type comparing to genera containing world languages.There is a tendency for Avestan language of Vandidad, to be one of languages of verb- initial type.
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