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Old Persian

language of Achaemenid Empire and ancestor of Middle Persian
Language language Q35225
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Summary

Old Persian is a language[1]. It ranks in the top 0.86% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,031 views/month, #48 of 5,611).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Achaemenid Empire[3], Iran[4]
  • Instance of: historical language[5]
  • Followed by: Middle Persian[6]
  • Subclass of: Southwestern Iranian[7], Old Iranian[8]
  • Writing system: Old Persian cuneiform[9]
  • Commons category: Old Persian language[10]
  • Wikimedia language code: peo[11]
  • Said to be the same as: Proto-Iranian[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Old Persian language[13]
  • Indigenous to: Fars Province[14]
  • Studied by: Iranian studies[15]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PEO[16], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-20230390X[17]

Why It Matters

Old Persian has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Pruna.ar · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Time period → Q114867307
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Time period: Achaemenid Period"
  2. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 8210
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 8210, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107286669|Old Persian language (#107286669)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Ox"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Subclass of → Southwestern Iranian, Old Iranian
    Instance of → —
    Followed by → Middle Persian
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 38467, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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