Scythian languages

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Eastern Iranian languages ancient languages extinct languages

Scythian languages are an extinct group of ancient Eastern Iranian languages once spoken by the nomadic Scythian peoples across the Eurasian steppe.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Scythian languages canonical 8
Scythian 4
Middle Scythian 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
ancient languages ⓘ
extinct languages ⓘ
associatedWith Scythia ⓘ
surface form: Scythian culture

nomadic steppe cultures ⓘ
attestedBy Assyrian records ⓘ
Greek transcriptions ⓘ
Latin transcriptions ⓘ
ethnonyms ⓘ
hydronyms ⓘ
personal names ⓘ
toponyms ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Alanian ⓘ
surface form: Alanian language

Ossetian language ⓘ
Sarmatian languages ⓘ
evidenceType loanwords in neighboring languages ⓘ
onomastic evidence ⓘ
extinctBy early Middle Ages ⓘ
extinctionStatus extinct ⓘ
hasDialect Alanian ⓘ
Pontic Scythian ⓘ
Sarmatians ⓘ
surface form: Sarmatian
hasFeature Eastern Iranian sound changes ⓘ
Iranian nominal morphology ⓘ
Iranian verbal morphology ⓘ
rich consonant clusters ⓘ
satəm-type phonology ⓘ
historicalPeriod 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
early 1st millennium CE ⓘ
influenced Ossetian language ⓘ
Saka languages ⓘ
regionOfInfluence Lower Danube region ⓘ
North Caucasus ⓘ
surface form: Northern Caucasus
replacedBy Slavic languages in Eastern Europe ⓘ
Turkic languages in the Eurasian Steppe ⓘ
other Iranian languages in Central Asia ⓘ
spokenBy Pontic Scythian ⓘ
surface form: Scythians
spokenIn Central Asia ⓘ
Eastern Europe ⓘ
Eurasian Steppe ⓘ
Northern Black Sea region ⓘ
Pontic–Caspian steppe ⓘ
surface form: Pontic–Caspian Steppe
studiedIn Indo-European linguistics ⓘ
Iranian studies ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ
subclassOf Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
Iranian languages ⓘ
writingSystem no native writing system securely attested ⓘ

Referenced by (15)

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

Eastern Iranian languages → hasMember → Scythian languages ⓘ
Eastern Iranian languages → hasExtinctLanguage → Scythian languages ⓘ
Scythian Neapolis → culture → Scythian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Scythian
Kingdom of the Bosporus → languageUsed → Scythian languages ⓘ
Ирон (Iron) → historicalOrigin → Scythian languages ⓘ
subject surface form: Ирон
this entity surface form: Scytho-Sarmatian languages
Saka → closelyRelatedTo → Scythian languages ⓘ
Alanic language → closelyRelatedTo → Scythian languages ⓘ
Southeastern Iranian languages → hasHistoricalLanguage → Scythian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Scythian
Proto-Iranian language → followedBy → Scythian languages ⓘ
Middle Iranian languages → hasPart → Scythian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Middle Scythian
Sogdian language → closelyRelatedTo → Scythian languages ⓘ
Proto-Eastern Iranian → hasDescendant → Scythian languages ⓘ
Northeastern Iranian languages → hasMemberLanguage → Scythian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Scythian
Northeastern Iranian languages → hasExtinctLanguage → Scythian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Scythian
Late Scythian kingdom → hasLanguage → Scythian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Scythian language