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Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples
No full textThe recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed in this book by a group of linguists and archaeologists. In the last few years, the materials available for the study of the older Indo-Iranian languages have increased dramatically: there have been discoveries of birch-bark scrolls bearing Buddhist texts in the Gandhari language of north-west India, and of leather documents in Bactrian, the ancient language of northern Afghanistan. Previously known data has been exploited in new ways using innovative techniques for compiling, manipulating, and disseminating electronic text and digital images. And archaeological finds in India, Pakistan, and Central Asia, including the ‘Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex’, have given rise to new hypotheses concerning the history and pre-history of the Indo-Iranian peoples. The volume also pays tribute to the pioneering work of the philologist Sir Harold Bailey (1899–1996)
Ancient Afghanistan and its invaders: Linguistic evidence from the Bactrian documents and inscriptions
No full textDuring the last ten years the corpus of Bactrian texts has increased dramatically. The dates of the Bactrian documents range from 342 to 781 a.d., a span of more than four centuries extending through the Kushano-Sasanian, Kidarite, Hephthalite, and Turkish periods, well into Islamic times. Apart from a few unidentifiable fragments and texts of uncertain type, the new Bactrian documents may be divided into four groups: (i) legal documents such as contracts and receipts; (ii) lists and accounts; (iii) letters; and (iv) Buddhist texts. As a result of these new finds, the corpus of Bactrian available for study is now much larger-perhaps as much as a hundred times larger—than it was ten years ago. Our knowledge of the Bactrian lexicon has increased correspondingly, perhaps by three or four times. This chapter examines this enlarged Bactrian vocabulary for linguistic data in the form of names and titles, loanwords and calques, in which one may hope to identify traces of the languages of the many peoples who held sway in Bactria during the course of its long and turbulent history
Nouveaux documents sur l'histoire et la langue de la Bactriane
No full textSims-Williams Nicholas. Nouveaux documents sur l'histoire et la langue de la Bactriane. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 140ᵉ année, N. 2, 1996. pp. 633-654
Nouveaux document bactriens du Guzgan (note d'information)
No full textSims-Williams Nicholas. Nouveaux document bactriens du Guzgan (note d'information). In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 146ᵉ année, N. 3, 2002. pp. 1047-1058
Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and the Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 2, Parthian economic documents from Nisa, Texts I,
No full textLes plus anciens monuments de la langue sogdienne : les inscriptions de Kultobe au Kazakhstan
No full textGrenet Frantz, Sims-Williams Nicholas, Podushkin Aleksandr. Les plus anciens monuments de la langue sogdienne : les inscriptions de Kultobe au Kazakhstan. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 151ᵉ année, N. 2, 2007. pp. 1005-1034
About Kust i Adurbadagan and the quadripartition of the Sasanian Empire
No full textThe author discusses the administrative structure of the late Sasanian Empire with a special focus on the quadripartition of the Empire and the northern quarter of Sasanian dominions, the Kust i Adurbadagan. To do so, he proposes a new reading of the final paragraphs of the Shahrestaniha i Eranshahr, comparing it with the Armenian Geography of Ananias of Shirak and with evidence deiving from our increased knowledge od Sasanian administrative glyptics. Finally, the author suggests a new definition of this area
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