Tumshuqese

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Tumshuqese is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the region of Tumshuq in what is now Xinjiang, China.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tumshuqese canonical 9
Tumshuqese Saka 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
extinct language
associatedReligion Buddhism
country China
documentedIn inscriptions
manuscripts
era 1st millennium CE
extinctionStatus no native speakers
geographicDistribution oases of Tumshuq region
glottologCode tums1235
glottologName Tumshuqese self-link
hasAlternativeName Tumshuq
surface form: Tumshuq Saka

Tumshuqese
surface form: Tumshuqese Saka
hasLinguisticFeature Eastern Iranian sound changes
surface form: Eastern Iranian phonology

Iranian morphology
hasWritingDirection left-to-right
historicalPeriod early medieval Central Asia
ISO639-3 xtq
languageFamily Eastern Iranian
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian
Iranian
partOf Saka languages
surface form: Saka language group
region China
Tarim Basin
Tumshuq
Xinjiang
relatedTo Khotanese language
surface form: Khotanese

Saka languages
scriptType abugida
spokenIn Central Asia
Tarim Basin
Tumshuq
Xinjiang
status extinct
subclassOf Eastern Iranian languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
usedFor Buddhist texts
administrative documents
writingSystem Brahmi script
Brahmi script
surface form: Tumshuqese Brahmi script

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Referenced by (11)

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

Saka languages hasVariety Tumshuqese
Saka languages notableDialect Tumshuqese
this entity surface form: Tumshuqese Saka
Saka hasDialect Tumshuqese
Tumshuqese glottologName Tumshuqese self-link
Tumshuqese hasAlternativeName Tumshuqese
this entity surface form: Tumshuqese Saka