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- Scythian_languages abstract "The Scythian languages (/ˈsɪθiən/ or /ˈsɪðiən/) are a group of Eastern Iranian languages of the classical and late antiquity (Middle Iranian) period, spoken in a vast region of Eurasia named Scythia. Except for modern Ossetian, which descends from the Alanian variety, these languages are all considered to be extinct. Modern Eastern Iranian languages such as Wakhi, however, are related to the eastern Scytho-Khotanese dialects attested from the kingdoms of Khotan and Tumshuq in the ancient Tarim Basin, in present-day southern Xinjiang, China.The location and extent of Scythia varied by time, but generally it encompassed the part of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula river and much of Central Asia up to the Tarim Basin. The dominant ethnic groups among the Scythians were nomadic pastoralists of Central Asia and the Pontic-Caspian steppe. Fragments of their speech known from inscriptions and words quoted in ancient authors as well as analysis of their names indicate that it was an Indo-European language, more specifically from the Iranian group of Indo-Iranian languages. Alexander Lubotsky summarizes the known linguistic landscape as follows:Unfortunately, we know next to nothing about the Scythian of that period [Old Iranian] – we have only a couple of personal and tribal names in Greek and Persian sources at our disposal – and cannot even determine with any degree of certainty whether it was a single language.".
- Scythian_languages languageFamily Eastern_Iranian_languages.
- Scythian_languages languageFamily Indo-Iranian_languages.
- Scythian_languages languageFamily Iranian_languages.
- Scythian_languages spokenIn Central_Asia.
- Scythian_languages spokenIn Eastern_Europe.
- Scythian_languages spokenIn Kingdom_of_Khotan.
- Scythian_languages spokenIn Parama_Kamboja_Kingdom.
- Scythian_languages spokenIn Sarmatians.
- Scythian_languages spokenIn Scythia_Minor.
- Scythian_languages spokenIn Sistan.
- Scythian_languages thumbnail Ptolemy_Cosmographia_1467_-_Caspian_Sea_Central_Asia.jpg?width=300.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageExternalLink indoiranianscythianelements.pdf.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageExternalLink scythian_es.html&date=2009-10-26+01:50:59.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageID "937969".
- Scythian_languages wikiPageLength "18791".
- Scythian_languages wikiPageOutDegree "122".
- Scythian_languages wikiPageRevisionID "697854637".
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Alans.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Amazons.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Anatolian_hieroglyphs.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Aphrodite_Urania.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Apollo.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Arimaspi.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Bartatua.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Black_Sea.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Breast.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_languages.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Eastern_Iranian_languages.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_languages_of_Asia.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_languages_of_Europe.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Ural.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sarmatians.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scythians.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Caucasus.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Central_Asia.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Classical_antiquity.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Crimea.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dacian_language.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Danube.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dialect_continuum.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dnieper.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dniester.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Dobruja.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Don_River_(Russia).
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Donets.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Donuzlav.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Europe.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Iranian_languages.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Esarhaddon.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Eurasia.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Folk_etymology.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Gaia_(mythology).
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Getae.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Herodotus.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Hestia.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Hotan.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Huns.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Indo-European_languages.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Indo-Iranian_languages.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Interpretatio_graeca.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Iranian_languages.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Issyk_kurgan.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink János_Harmatta.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kazakhstan.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_Khotan.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Kurgan.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Ladislav_Zgusta.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Late_Antiquity.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Mahabharata.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Manfred_Mayrhofer.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Max_Vasmer.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Medieval_Greek.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Moldova.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Mu_(letter).
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Nomadic_pastoralism.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Ossetian_language.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pamir_languages.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pannonian_Avars.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pannonian_Basin.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Parama_Kamboja_Kingdom.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pashto.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pechenegs.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Periodization.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pi_(letter).
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pliny_the_Elder.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Pontic–Caspian_steppe.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Poseidon.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Privative_a.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Russia.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Saka_language.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Saqqez.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Sarmatians.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Scythia.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Scythia_Minor.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Scythians.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Sistan.
- Scythian_languages wikiPageWikiLink Tarim_Basin.