Iran And India

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Ok, I found a transliterated version of Avesta hiding on my hard-disk!

The encoding is as follows:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ASCII   HTML           description    pronunciation
  a      a             a              as in German, or as a in 'father'
  A      â (‰)   a-macron       as a in 'father' only lengthened
  &      ã (‹)  a-tilde        as 'an' in French enfant, a nasalized 'a'
  @      å (Œ)   a-ring         as aw in 'saw'
  b      b             b              as in English
  j      c             c              as ch in 'church'
  d      d             d              as in English
  D      dh (or eth=Ý) delta (or eth) as th in 'that', a voiced th
  e      e             schwa          as u in 'but'
  E      ê ()   schwa-macron   as u in 'but', only lengthened
  =      e             e              as in German, or e in 'bed'
  %      ê ()   e-macron       as in German only lengthened or a in 'made'
  f      f             f              as in English
  g      g             g              as in English
  K      kh            gamma          voiced x (often transcribed gh)
  h      h             h              as in English
  Q      h'            h-ogonek       as h, possibly stronger (before y)
  i      i             i              as in German, or i in 'it'
  I      î (”)   i-macron       as i in 'it' only lengthened
  J      j             j              as in English
  k      k             k              as in English
  l      l             l              as in English (not used in Avesta)
  m      m             m              as in English
  M      hm            hm-ligature    m which has become voiceless after h
  n      n             n              as in English
  N      ng            n-long-tailed  nh (gutteral nasal) before stops
  #      ñ (–)  n-tilde        as n (used before stopped consonents)
  *      ng            n-ogonek       as nh
  o      o             o              as in German, or o in 'rope'
  O      ô (™)   o-macron       as o in 'rope' only lengthened (or o in 'Minnesota')
  p      p             p              as in English
  r      r             r              as in English
  s      s             s              as in English
  c      sh            s-hacek        as sh in 'show' (palatal)
  C      sh            s-hacek-ogonek as sh in 'show' only more retroflex
  $      sh            s-hacek-cedilla  as sh in 'show' (used before y)
                                      (sometimes transcribed by s-acute)
  t      t             t              as in French 'tout' (dental, i.e. with tongue at same
                                      position as for English th in 'thin')
  T      t             t-ogonek       as t in 'try'
  +      th            theta          as th in 'thing'
  u      u             u              as in German, or u in 'put'
  U      û (ž)   u-macron       as oo in 'book'
  v      v             v              as w in Dutch water (a bilabial semivowel similar to Engl.
                                      v but not a fricative) (Humbach transcribes 'uu')
  V      v             v-acute        as v above (used initially with a few exceptions)
  w      w             w              as in English
  x      x             x              as German ch, or ch in Scottish 'loch'
  q      xv            x-superscript-v  as x (as above) with v immediately following
  y      y             y              as in English (Humbach transcribes 'ii')
  Y      ý (à)  y-acute        as y above (used initially)
  z      z             z              as in English
  Z      zh            z-hacek        as z in 'azure'

Note:

HTML does not currently allow for the accurate representation of all Avesta
graphemes. In particular, the shwa, and different forms of "n", "sh", and
"t" are not distinguished. Thus the ASCII-encoded versions are preferred for
research purposes.

Other notes on pronunciation

a   as bite
ao   as out
ere  much like 'pretty' (when pronounced 'peretty') e.g. peresat
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According to this encoding the words that I earlier entered appear in Vendidad as follows:

Airyana Vaeja (and Airyana vaejo) -> airyanem Va%JO
airyama -> airyEmA
vairya -> VairyO or Vairya
airyaman -> airyEmA
mairya -> mairIm
Ahuna-vairya -> ahuna Vairya
Astairya -> astairy=h=

The "aryan regions" in the translated version appears as:
"airyan&m daQyun&m" in the transliterated version.

The transliteration scheme gives "a" to be pronounced as a in father, and gives "A" to be pronounced as a in father but longer! Obviously the transliterator is talking about a as in sanskrit "a" and A as in sanskrit "aa" or "A" (in ITRANS scheme)

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All the references to "airya" use "a" and not "A" which suggests that "Arya" is not meant by the term "airya".

My hypothesis of "aila" still stands as "aila" uses hrasva "a" and not dIrgha "A".