Khotanese language
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Khotanese | ||
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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 |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | kho | |
ISO 639-3: | kho | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
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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