Khotanese language

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Khotanese
Spoken in: Kingdom of Khotan (Xinjiang today) 
Region: Eastern Europe
Language extinction: 10th century A.D.
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian languages
  Iranian
   Middle Iranian
    Eastern Iranian
     Scythian
      Scytho-Khotanese
       Khotanese
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: kho
ISO 639-3: kho

Khotanese is a middle Iranian language preserved in Buddhist and secular documents from eastern Chinese Turkistan that date from about the fifth through the tenth century A.D.[1].

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