Sogdian language

E224176

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

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sogdian 16
Sogdian language canonical 12

How this entity was disambiguated

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iranian peoples → historicalLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
Eastern Iranian languages → hasMember → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Eastern Iranian languages → hasExtinctLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Sasanian Empire → commonLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Manichaeism → language → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Sogdians → language → Sogdian language ⓘ
Saka languages → relatedTo → Sogdian language ⓘ
Avestan language → relatedTo → Sogdian language ⓘ
Parthian language → influenced → Sogdian language ⓘ
Sogdia → majorLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Proto-Iranian language → ancestorOf → Sogdian language ⓘ
Middle Iranian languages → hasPart → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Pahlavi script → usedForLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Sogdian alphabet → writingSystemOf → Sogdian language ⓘ
Sogdian alphabet → unicodeBlock → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Manichaean script → usedFor → Sogdian language ⓘ
Yaghnobi → ancestor → Sogdian language ⓘ
Yaghnobi → descentFrom → Sogdian language ⓘ
Yaghnobi → closelyRelatedTo → Sogdian language ⓘ
Proto-Eastern Iranian → hasDescendant → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Khwarezmian → neighboringLanguages → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
eastern Iran → languageHistoricallySpoken → Sogdian language ⓘ
subject surface form: Eastern Iran
Northeastern Iranian languages → hasMemberLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Northeastern Iranian languages → hasExtinctLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Turfan manuscripts → hasLanguage → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Turfan manuscripts → associatedWithCulture → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Hexi Corridor → languageContact → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian
Living Gospel → language → Sogdian language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian