Sogdian language

E224176

Eastern Iranian language Middle Iranian language historical language

The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language once widely used along the Silk Road, especially in trade and religious communities of Central Asia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Sogdian	16
Sogdian language canonical	12

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Eastern Iranian language ⓘ Middle Iranian language ⓘ historical language ⓘ
ancestorOf	Pamir languages ⓘ surface form: Yaghnobi language
attestedIn	Dunhuang ⓘ surface form: Dunhuang manuscripts Mugh documents ⓘ Turfan manuscripts ⓘ
classification	Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Bactrian language ⓘ Khwarezmian language ⓘ Scythian languages ⓘ
era	1st millennium CE ⓘ
extinctionCentury	10th century ⓘ 11th century ⓘ
glottocode	sogd1244 ⓘ
hasScriptVariant	cursive Sogdian script ⓘ formal Sogdian script ⓘ
influenced	Classical Mongolian script ⓘ surface form: Mongolian script Old Turkic language ⓘ surface form: Old Turkic languages Uyghur language (historically) ⓘ surface form: Old Uyghur language Old Uyghur alphabet ⓘ surface form: Uyghur script
ISO639-3	sog ⓘ
languageFamily	Iranian languages ⓘ
partOf	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
primaryArea	Bukhara Region ⓘ surface form: Bukhara region Samarkand Region ⓘ surface form: Samarkand region
region	Central Asia ⓘ Silk Road routes ⓘ surface form: Silk Road Sogdia ⓘ Transoxiana ⓘ
role	lingua franca of the Silk Road ⓘ trade language of Central Asia ⓘ
scriptType	abjad ⓘ
spokenBy	Sogdians ⓘ
status	extinct ⓘ
subfamily	Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
timePeriod	Middle Iranian languages ⓘ surface form: Middle Iranian period
usedFor	religious communication ⓘ trade ⓘ
usedInReligion	Buddhism ⓘ Christianity ⓘ Manichaeism ⓘ Zoroastrianism ⓘ
writingDirection	right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystem	Brahmi script ⓘ surface form: Brāhmī script Manichaean script ⓘ Sogdian alphabet ⓘ surface form: Sogdian script Syriac alphabet ⓘ surface form: Syriac script