Selected features of Bactrian grammar /
Bactrian, the only Iranian language written in the Greek alphabet, was spoken in ancient Bactria in northern Afghanistan. It is an intermediary Middle Iranian language, possessing the characters of both Eastern and Western Iranian groups, and thus playing a very important role in the dialectology of...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Alemán |
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Wiesbaden [Germany] :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2014.
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Series: | Göttinger Orientforschunge. Iranica ;
Neue Folge 12. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Table of phonetic values; Acknowledgements; Body; 1. Chapter One: Introduction; 1.1 Bactria; 1.2 Bactrian language and script; 1.3 Bactrian sources; 1.3.1 Coins; 1.3.2 Seals; 1.3.3 Inscriptions; Surkh Kotal; Rabatak; The other inscriptions; 1.3.4 Manuscripts; 1.3.5 Documents; 1. Legal documents; 2. Lists and accounts; 3. Letters; 4. Buddhist texts; 5. Fragments of documents of uncertain type; 1.4 Aims and assumptions; 2. Chapter Two: Historical phonology of Bactrian; 2.1 Consonants; 2.2 Simple consonants; 2.2.1 PIr. plosives.