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Download alphabet charts for Sogdian (Excel) Sample text in Ancient Sogdian Letters. Transliteration. at βaγw xutāw βarak nanyē-θβār kanak. (ēw-)zār βrēwar āfrīwan namācyu spātzānūk kaδ-uti wēšanu βaγān (u) βyart pišt con xēpθ βantē nanē-βantē. Translation. To the Divine Master Barak (?)
The Sogdian alphabet is one of three scripts used to write the Sogdian language, the others being the Manichaean alphabet and the Syriac alphabet. It was used throughout Central Asia , from the edge of Iran in the west, to China in the east, from approximately 100–1200 A.D. [1]
Many works are written in this alphabet. In this article, originally published in English in the 269th issue of Journal Asiatique (1981), Nicholas Sims-Williams provided information about the Sogdian alphabet, which is the basis of the Uyghur alphabet, and explained the differences between the Uyghur and Sogdian alphabets.
28 de jul. de 2020 · Like all the writing systems employed for Middle Iranian languages, the Sogdian alphabet ultimately derives from the Aramaic alphabet . Like its close relatives, the Pahlavi scripts , written Sogdian contains many logograms or ideograms , which were Aramaic words written to represent native spoken ones. The Sogdian
The Sogdian script in its various forms is sometimes referred to as the Sogdian “national script” because it was available to all speakers of the language and used for writing texts of all sorts, including religious texts as well as inscriptions, letters, and legal documents.
Sogdian Ancient Letter No. 2. The second of the Sogdian Ancient Letters is by far the longest and most informative. It was written by Nanai-vandak, a Sogdian merchant based in western China, perhaps in Jincheng, and addressed to two of his partners in Samarkand, the capital of Sogdiana, more than 2,000 miles to the west.
This socio-historical study by Moritz Huber provides a translation of the transmitted Chinese records on Sogdians in Sogdiana and China and combines them with archaeological evidence to present a differentiated picture of their presence in China from the 3rd to 10th century CE.
