Old Chorasmian

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Old Chorasmian is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the historical region of Khwarezm, in what is now Central Asia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
Middle Iranian language
extinct language
attestedIn coins
inscriptions
legal documents
religious texts
royal decrees
documentationStatus fragmentary
extinctionStatus extinct
geographicContext lower Amu Darya region NERFINISHED
hasCaseSystem true
hasDescendant Chorasmian (later stage)
hasGrammaticalGender true
hasNumberDistinction plural
singular
historicalRegion Khwarezm NERFINISHED
influencedBy Imperial Aramaic NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 zkh
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
lexicalBorrowingFrom Aramaic
Middle Persian NERFINISHED
morphologicalType fusional
phonologicalFeature typical Eastern Iranian consonant system
regionNowIn Kazakhstan NERFINISHED
Turkmenistan NERFINISHED
Uzbekistan NERFINISHED
relatedTo Bactrian
Khotanese
Sogdian
researchField Iranian linguistics
historical linguistics
scriptOrigin derived from Aramaic script
scriptType abjad
spokenIn Central Asia NERFINISHED
Chorasmia NERFINISHED
Khwarezm NERFINISHED
subgroupOf Eastern Iranian languages NERFINISHED
timePeriod early Middle Ages
late antiquity
usedBy Chorasmian people NERFINISHED
usedFor administration
law
religion
usesAramaicIdeograms true
writingSystem Aramaic-derived script
Chorasmian script NERFINISHED

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Old Iranian languages hasPart Old Chorasmian