Indo-Iranian

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

>The Achaemenid inscriptions are easily datable, they fall mostly in the
>6th/5th centuries B.C. Traditional datings of Zarathushtra put him in the
>same time (mostly as a contemporary of Dareios I., but this has been
>challenged, lately by Mary Boyce, who assigned him a date considerably
>earlier on the time-scale >>

-- I would agree, given the _extremely_ close correspondances between the
earlier Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit.