LC control no. | sh2006001203 |
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LC classification | PK6199.6 |
Topical heading | Bactrian language |
See also | Asia, Central--Languages Iranian languages, Middle |
Found in | Work cat.: 2001271220: Sims-Williams, Nicholas. Bactrian documents, 2000. Wikipedia WWW site, Feb. 13, 2006 (Bactrian language is an extinct language which was spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria. Linguistically it is classified as an Iranian language. Around 123 BCE ... adopted the Greek alphabet. Before that time Bactrian was written in the Aramaic alphabet) University of Tokyo Department of Linguistics WWW site, Feb 13, 2006: Sims-Williams--Bactrian (Bactrian, the ancient language of Bactria in northern Afghanistan, is unique among the Iranian languages in being written by means of the Greek alphabet) |