+Old Iranian encompasses the earliest documented stages of the [Iranian languages](/wiki/iranian_languages), spoken across the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia. These ancient tongues, notably including [Old Persian](/wiki/old_persian) and Avestan, form the ancestral root for the many Iranian languages spoken today.
+## See also
+- [Avestan](/wiki/avestan)
+- [Middle Iranian](/wiki/middle_iranian)
+- [Proto-Indo-Iranian](/wiki/proto-indo_iranian)