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As the name Yon. a denotes the Bactrian Greeks, linguistic research has presumed that the Iranian elements in the Aramaic inscrip-tions found at Taxila, Laghman and Kandahar must represent the language of the Kam. bojas. However, this logical conclusion only defers a solution of the problem, because the language of the Kam. bojas is not known ...
Bakhtiari, a Southwestern Iranian language in the Luri language continuum, is spoken by over a million people in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Almost a century after Lorimer’s (1922) publication on the phonology of Bakhtiari, the present study re-examines this topic in the light of contemporary linguistics, the study of lexicon and texts and ...
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Download Free PDF. View PDF. Despite the fact that the phonemic inventory of the Bactrian language, an Eastern Iranian language that was once one of the most important languages in Central Asia (Gholami 2014), has become less obscure in recent years, a number of uncertainties.
Bactrian (Bactrian: Αριαο, romanized: ariao, [arjaː], meaning "Iranian") is an extinct Eastern Iranian language formerly spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria (present-day Afghanistan) and used as the official language of the Kushan and the Hephthalite empires.
Aug 19, 2011 · BACTRIAN LANGUAGE, the Iranian language of ancient Bactria (northern Afghanistan), attested by coins, seals, and inscriptions of the Kushan period (first to third centuries A.D.) and the following centuries and by a few manuscript fragments from a much later period, perhaps the eighth or ninth century. Instead of “Bactrian” some scholars ...
A PHONOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL ANALYSIS. There is no doubt that Pashto as an East Iranian language is related notably to Sogdian, Khwarezmian, (Khotanese) Saka, Bactrian, Pamiri languages (e.g. Shughni), Yidgha-Munji, Wakhi, and Sanglechi-Ishkashimi. However, the precise status of Pashto within the East Iranian language group is often a matter of ...
