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Preferred term

khoSakan  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Saka or Sakan is a Middle Iranian language attested from the medieval Buddhist kingdoms of Khotan and Tumxuk in what in now Xinjiang, China. Both dialects share features with modern Wakhi and Pashto. Many Prakrit terms were borrowed from Khotanese into the Tocharian languages.

Entry terms

  • Khotanese
  • Saka language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • kho

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • kho

ISO 639-3 code

  • kho

Notation

  • kho

In other languages

  • Khotanais

    French

  • khotanais
  • Sakisch

    German

  • Sakische Sprache
  • khotanese

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Língua kothanesa
  • Língua saka
  • kotanés

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kho

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