Saka

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Saka is an ancient Eastern Iranian language once spoken by the Saka people in the Tarim Basin region of Central Asia.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Saka canonical 8
Middle Saka 1
Sakan 1

Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
ancient language
alsoKnownAs Saka languages
surface form: Saka language

Saka
surface form: Sakan
associatedWith Kingdom of Khotan
Tumshuq
closelyRelatedTo Scythian languages
other Eastern Iranian languages
extinctionStatus extinct
geographicContext Silk Road routes
surface form: Silk Road
hasAncestor Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-Iranian language
Proto-Iranian language
hasDialect Khotanese language
surface form: Khotanese

Tumshuqese
historicalPeriod 1st millennium CE
ISOStatus historical language
languageFamily Eastern Iranian
linguisticType inflected language
primaryReligionContext Buddhism
region China
Xinjiang
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy Saka people
spokenIn Central Asia
Tarim Basin
subclassOf Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
usedIn Buddhist texts
administrative documents
royal documents
writingSystem Brahmi script
Kharoṣṭhī script
surface form: Kharosthi script

Referenced by (10)

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