Saka of Khotan
E771668
Saka of Khotan refers to the historical Eastern Iranian (Saka) language variety spoken in the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Khotan along the Silk Road in what is now Xinjiang, China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saka of Khotan canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Iranian language
ⓘ
Middle Iranian language ⓘ Saka language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Khotanese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Khotanese Saka NERFINISHED ⓘ Saka of Khotan and Tumshuq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buddhist monastic communities
ⓘ
Silk Road trade networks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
manuscripts from Dunhuang
ⓘ
manuscripts from Khotan region ⓘ |
| center | city of Khotan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tumshuqese Saka
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Saka dialects ⓘ |
| extinctIn | by around the 11th century CE ⓘ |
| geopoliticalContext | Western Regions of ancient China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCorpus |
Buddhist doctrinal texts
ⓘ
Buddhist narrative texts ⓘ legal and economic documents ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ rich case system ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gandhari Prakrit NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Saka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Eastern Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernStudyField |
Buddhist studies
ⓘ
Central Asian studies ⓘ Iranian philology ⓘ |
| partOf | Middle Iranian stage of Iranian languages ⓘ |
| reconstructedFrom | manuscript fragments ⓘ |
| region | southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Buddhism ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Kingdom of Khotan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Silk Road oases NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarim Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ present-day Xinjiang, China ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-European language
ⓘ
Indo-Iranian language ⓘ Iranian language ⓘ |
| timePeriod | roughly 5th to 10th centuries CE ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Buddhist scriptures
ⓘ
administrative documents ⓘ royal edicts ⓘ secular documents ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
Kharosthi script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.