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An introduction to Sogdian by Prods Oktor Skjærvø, from Harvard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Sogdian is one of the EASTERN MIDDLE IRANIAN LANGUAGES, Indo-European branch also including other tongues related to the Avestan, language of the Old Iranian, as:* Choresmian (the same as Kharezmian or Khorezmian);* Bactrian; and* Khotanese.One of the modern offsprings of the Iranian dialect named Sogdian is the language known today as Yaghnobi.There are old Sogdian texts in four different alphabets or ways of writing: 1) Aramaic Old Sogdian script;; 2) Soghdian-Uighur; 3) Manichean; and 4) Nestorio-Christian.Besides the EASTERN ones, there are also the WESTERN MIDDLE IRANIAN LANGUAGES, related to Old Persian, a tongue belonging to the Old Iranian branch, that include as well as 1) middle Persian & 2) Parthian, of course not treated in this excellent book by professor Prods Oktor Skjærvø, from Harvard, who presents to us not only easy-of-understanding lessons, but fine exercises too.

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Author

Prods Oktor Skjærvø, from Harvard

Published

2003

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Language