03.05.2019 - 03.05.2019 | Berlin. The rediscovery of Sogdian, lingua franca of the Silk Road Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe des Zentrums Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt: „Sprachen ...

"In retrospect, this latter engagement spared the ancient Sogdian language - at least its written form - the fate of total extinction," Rong says.

Qarib’s noteworthy credits are a dictionary of the Sogdian language into Persian and English, “Structural Analysis of Verbs in the Sodigan Language”, “Silent Languages” and “Sodigan Studies”. Photo: ...

Between the fourth and 10th centuries the Sogdian dominance of the Silk Road in effect turned their Eastern Iranian language into a lingua franca of Asian trade.

The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Central Asian region of Sogdia, located in modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; it was also spoken by ...

Qarib is an outstanding expert on Sogdian language whose book "Sogdian Dictionary" deals with different terms of Buddhism, Manichaeism and Christianity. This dictionary is in two volumes and was ...

The Sogdian began to immigrate to China in large numbers during the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907) and they mainly dealt with silk exports of China to Central Asia while selling glass and metal ...

In the first part of the talk, Nicholas Sims-Williams concentrates on the beginnings of Sogdian studies, a little over a hundred years ago: the first discoveries of documents and inscriptions in the ...