Sogdian language

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In Iranian languages: The Middle Iranian stage
The oldest surviving Sogdian documents are the so-called Ancient Letters found in a watchtower on the Great Wall of China, west of Dunhuang, and dated at the beginning of the 4th century ce. Most of the religious literature written in Sogdian dates from the 9th and 10th centuries.…
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In Iranian languages: Writing systems
Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Old Khwārezmian were recorded in various forms of Aramaic script. Two forms of this script as they developed for writing Sogdian were adopted by the Uighurs. In its cursive form this script spread even farther, to the Mongols and Manchus. Three other scripts…
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