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	Sogdian language
		One of the dead East Iranian languages, Sogdian was once spoken in ancient Sogdiana, the historical region along the upper Zeravshan river, having the center in Samarkand (then Marakanda).
		Later Sogdian was assimilated by classic Persian and mostly by languages of Turkish nomadic tribes.
		The language of Sogdian documents represents the western dialects of the tongue, while the eastern branch gave birth to another Iranian language, Yagnobi, spoken nowadays.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/iran/sogdian.html (232 words)

	Sogdian language
		Sogdian is one of the most important Middle Iranian languages with a large literary corpus, standing next to Middle Persian and Parthian.
		It was the language of trade in all of Central Asia (Transoxiana) and was the lingua franca of Chinese and Iranian traders.
		The language belongs to the Northeastern branch of Iranian languages.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sogdian_language.html (461 words)

	Yaghnubi Language - (CAIS)
		When old texts in Sogdian were found in East-Turkestan at the beginning of this century, it became evident that the Yaghnabi language has its origins in the ancient Sogdian language, belonging to the Iranian group of Indo-European languages.
		As late as the 17th century the Sogdian language, of which the Yaghnabi language is a continuation, was widely spoken in the Zeravshan and Kashkadarya valleys, in Usrushan (an area between Samarkand and Hodzhent) and in the Fergana valley.
		One of the reasons for the survival of the Yaghnabi language is reputedly the relatively late Islamization of the Yaghnabis.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Languages/yaghnubi.htm (920 words)

	Sogdian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sogdian is one of the most important Middle Iranian languages with a large literary corpus, standing next to Middle Persian and Parthian.
		It was the language of trade in all of Central Asia (Transoxiana) and was the lingua franca of Chinese and Iranian traders.
		The language belongs to the Northeastern branch of Iranian languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sogdian_language (437 words)

	Sogdiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It lay north of Bactria, east of Khwarezm, and southeast of Kangju between the Oxus (Amu Darya) and the Jaxartes (Syr Darya), embracing the fertile valley of the Zarafshan (anc.
		Sogdian Rock or Rock of Ariamazes, a fortress in Sogdiana, was captured in 327 BC by the forces of Alexander the Great, who united Sogdiana with Bactria in to one satrapy.
		Sogdians were actors in the Silk Road transmission of Buddhism, until the period of Muslim invasion in the 8th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sogdiana (723 words)

	Sogdian script and language
		The Sogdian script largely full out of use during the 10th century, though was used to some extent until the 13th century.
		Sogdian is an extinct member of the eastern branch of Middle Iranian languages once spoken in Sogdiana, a region that includes parts of China (Xinjiang), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan.
		Yaqnabi, a language spoken in Tajikistan is thought to be a modern descentant of Sogdian.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/sogdian.htm (239 words)

	Turkish_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		One of the tasks of the newly-established association was to initiate a language reform to replace loanwords of Arabic and Persian origin with Turkish equivalents.
		Turkish is the official language of Turkey and is one of the official languages of Cyprus.
		The Turkish Language Association was influenced by the ideology of linguistic purism: indeed one of its primary tasks was the replacement of loanwords and foreign grammatical constructions with equivalents of Turkish origin.
	language.school-explorer.com /Turkish (4698 words)

	Iranian Language Family
		In this process, the languages of the earliest tribes to settle in the Iranian Plateau (Medes, Parthians, and Persians) came to form the “Western Iranian” branch of this family, while the languages of most of the nomadic tribes and a few who settled in Central Asia are categorised as “Eastern Iranian”.
		Middle Persian was initially the language of the province of Pars (Persis), the heart of the Achaemenid (and later Sasanian) empires, and a semi-autonomous kingdom during the Parthian period.
		The language of the new rulers, Middle Persian, thus became the dominant language of the empire.
	www.iranologie.com /history/ilf.html (4556 words)

	Sogdian
		The Sogdian language belongs to the eastern group of the middle iranian languages, along with Sacian, or Saka (spoken in Khotan, China), Bactrian (spoken in present-day Afghanistan) and Chorasmian (spoken in present-day Northern Uzbekistan).
		Other languages of this group are Avestan in the old times and Pashto and Ossetian in the modern times.
		This language has not died out after its decadence, but it has evolved into the Yaghnobi language, spoken in Tajikistan by a few thousand people, and it has been replaced as a cultural language by Persian, a western iranian language.
	www.geocities.com /interlinguae/sogdian.html (175 words)

	Sogdian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Indo-European Languages : extinct and archaic languages: Sogdian language
		Middle Iranian is represented not only by Middle Persian and the closely related Parthian language but also by several Central Asian tongues....
		The Sogdian language is an extinct Middle Iranian language that was spoken in Sogdiana (Zarafshan River Valley), located in modern day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (chief cities...
	encarta.msn.com /Sogdian.html (145 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		When old texts in Sogdian were found in East-Turkestan at the beginning of this century, it became evident that the Yaghnabi language has its origins in the ancient Sogdian language, belonging to the Iranian group of Indo-European languages.
		As late as the 17th century the Sogdian language, of which the Yaghnabi language is a continuation, was widely spoken in the Zeravshan and Kashkadarya valleys, in Usrushan (an area between Samarkand and Hodzhent) and in the Fergana valley.
		One of the reasons for the survival of the Yaghnabi language is reputedly the relatively late Islamization of the Yaghnabis.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/yaghnabis.shtml (1626 words)

	Sogdian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sogdian alphabet, also called the Old Uyghur alphabet is derived from Syriac, the descendant script of the Aramaic alphabet.
		It is occasionally known as the sutra script, and is similar to the script of the ancient letters used in writing on papyri.
		Sogdian was written either in horizontal and sometimes in vertical direction, the latter probably under Chinese influence, but with the first vertical line starting from the left side, not from the right as in Chinese, most probably because the right-to-left direction was used in horizontal writing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sogdian_alphabet (183 words)

	Origin of the Indo-European languages: Part IV (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The languages of the former inhabitants of Europe, except the Basque (a non-Indo-European language), were displaced by the Indo-European dialects.
		Zend language is considered to be born from a Northern dialect with respect to the ancient Persian language, but both of them are really joined together and belong to the Western Iranian group.
		The language used in these texts, which are sometimes erroneously named Chaldean-Parsee, is a form of Parthian language which was not utilized in the official epigraphy (written in Aramaic or Greek languages).
	www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar /english/linguistics/origin4.html (2071 words)

	Farsi, the most widely spoken Persian Language, a Farsi Dictionary, Farsi English Dictionary, The spoken language in ...
		Avestan, probably spoken in the northeast of ancient Persia, is the language of the Avesta, the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism.
		Parthian was the language of the Arsacid or Parthian Empire (circa 250 BC-AD 226).
		Sogdian produced a body of Christian, Buddhist, and secular literature, and Saka's Khotanese dialect was the vehicle of an important Buddhist literature.
	www.farsinet.com /farsi (1155 words)

	History of Iran: Soghdiana, Iranian Culture in Central Asia
		The survival of Sogdian culture was guaranteed until 9th century CE in the colonies of Central Asia and China and in Ustrushana, a region not Islamicized.
		The Sogdians were able to maintain their privileges in China because of the protection granted by the Uighurs, and increase their power at the latter's court.
		In 840 CE the Kirghiz destroyed the Uighur Empire and obliged the population to migrate to China.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/articles/soghdiana.php (1863 words)

	IITS - Lexicon of Iranian Languages (SD-Introduction) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sogdian was once an "international" language — in fact, the lingua franca of the Silk Road for many centuries.
		Thus, just as the language itself served as a medium threading cultures and thoughts, the discovery, deciphering and study of Sogdian texts and documents in the past several decades have shed light on many inter-cultural, historical and linguistic links, and the re-constructed language is now a valuable source for etymological
		Sogdian loan-words in Persian are given in the Persian Meaning; so are the names of months, days and feasts from the works of Beruni, as well as certain grammatical notes.
	www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/indologie/lil/sd-intro.html (793 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Parthian was the language of the Arsacid or Parthian Empire (c.
		BACTRIA, (q.v.); Sogdian, in the vast region of Sogdiana, including the cities of Samarqand and Bukhara; and Saka (a name associated with various Scythian kingdoms), in Chinese Turkestan.
		Sogdian produced a body of Christian, Buddhist, and secular literature, and Saka's Khotanese dialect was the vehicle of an important Buddhist literature.
	historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..pe054600.a (713 words)

	Iran Zamin: 10/19/2003 - 10/25/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The median language is one of the Old Iranian languages.This was the language of the mads,which was spoken in Central and Western Iran around 835 BCE.
		Parthian Pahlavi was the language of the Parthian who lived in the North East of Iran and have left behind some stone tablets in Parthian script, which is derived from the Aarami script.
		Aasee Language is a Caucasian language and is connected to the Sogdian and Karazmian language.
	dooroodiran.blogspot.com /2003_10_19_dooroodiran_archive.html (1771 words)

	Sogd - history
		The principal Sogdian lands were along the valley of the river Zeravshan with Samarkand as a centre.
		Extensive Sogdian colonies were situated in the valleys of the rivers Chu and Talas, where the Sogdian language was preserved until the XI c.
		Sogdian was the language of the international exchange thanks to both the wide commercial and colonisation activities of the Sogdians, and the important administrative role it played in the Turkic khaganates
	www.kroraina.com /ca/h_sogd.html (1113 words)

	Sogd - history
		The principal Sogdian lands were along the valley of the river Zeravshan with Samarkand as a centre.
		Extensive Sogdian colonies were situated in the valleys of the rivers Chu and Talas, where the Sogdian language was preserved until the XI c.
		Sogdian was the language of the international exchange thanks to both the wide commercial and colonisation activities of the Sogdians, and the important administrative role it played in the Turkic khaganates
	kroraina.com /ca/h_sogd.html (1113 words)

	THE IRANIAN: History, Iranian culture in Central Asia, Matteo Compareti
		Sogdian colonies were widespread in the whole of Central Asia and large Sogdian trade communities lived even in the Chinese capital Chang'an.
		The survival of Sogdian culture was guaranteed until 9th century in the colonies of Central Asia and China and in Ustrushana, a region not Islamicized.
		In 840 the Kirghiz destroyed the Uighur Empire and obliged the population to migrate to China.
	www.iranian.com /History/2001/July/Sogdiana/index.html (1952 words)

	The Pre-Islamic Civilization of the Sogdians (seventh century BCE to eighth century CE): A Bibliographic Essay (studies ...
		Sogdiana and the Sogdians have exerted the greatest attraction, thanks to their historical role as intermediaries along the Silk Road and also to their particularly refined artistic culture (already in 1981 Sogdian Painting, published under the direction of Guitty Azarpay, was a revelation for many).
		Manicheism in Sogdiana and in the Sogdian colonies
		Sogdian epigraphy is covered by Moriyasu and Ochir (the Sogdian inscriptions commissioned by the first Turkish empire) and by Sims-Williams (in particular for the Upper Indus inscriptions discovered since 1979; his publication also provides the main reference to date on Sogdian onomastics).
	silkroadfoundation.org /newsletter/december/pre-islamic.htm (5037 words)

	Nicolini-Zani Christiano-Sogdica - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran
		Particular stress is put on the important role played by Sogdians, in their homeland and in their migrations towards the East, in transmitting the Christian faith into Asia.
		C) Linguistic peculiarities of the Christian Sogdian language, which differentiate it from the Sogdian of Manichaean and Buddhist texts: lexical observations, morphological analyses, loanwords from Syriac and other languages.
		1993 "The Sogdian Inscriptions of Ladakh", in Karl Jettmar et al.
	www.transoxiana.org /Eran/Articles/nicolini-zani.html (4181 words)

	Linguistics
		Language is said to be lateralized and processed in the left hemisphere of the brain.
		A non-standard dialect is associated with covert prestige and is an ethnic or regional dialect of a language.
		The Dravidian languages of Tamil and Telugu are spoken in southeastern India and Sri Lanka.
	www.ielanguages.com /linguist.html (8167 words)

	Heart Of The Silk Road: SOGDIANA & SOGDIAN ART
		The Sogdians resented being governed by Alexander's successors, the Greek kings of the Seleucid dynasty.
		Sogdian textiles are known to have been in great demand among their neighbours.
		In the northeast and northwest the language spoken was
	www.weecheng.com /silk/tajik/sogdian.htm (2138 words)

	the Archaeology of Sogdiana
		The architecture of fortified residences was similar to that of the houses of wealthy citizens.
		In the Sogdian decorative arts images of the gods were formed under the Greek influence, to which were added Iranian elements in the fifth century and, in the sixth century, Indian elements.
		This is why, starting with the ninth century, it is impossible to speak of Sogdian culture on the territory of Sogdiana itself at the same time that it survived until the eleventh century among Sogdian immigrants who resettled in eastern Central Asia and China.
	www.silk-road.com /newsletter/december/archaeology.htm (3200 words)

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		Mongolian is the language of most of the population of Mongolia and also of Inner Mongolia and of separate groups living in several other provinces and regions of China and the Russian Federation.
		By origin, it is one of the languages of the Mongolian group of the Altaic family.
		The monuments of that period are linguistic materials referred to in historical documents of neighboring nations, in a majority of cases in Chinese transcription; materials in the Tabghatch dialect of the Xian'pi language; and in the Mongolian literary language in the Mongolian script based on the ancient Mongolian language.
	www.indiana.edu /~mongsoc/mong/language.htm (1204 words)

	Persian language
		Middle Persian was a contemporary of Parthian, and during the Arsacid period, Persian was strongly influenced by Parthian.
		Middle Persian was the language used in the Sassanian Empire, and was called Pahlavi.
		Modern Persian, the language of Iran today, was developed as early as in the 9th century.
	i-cias.com /e.o/persian_l.htm (376 words)

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