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Bactrian
Also known as Bactrian language
extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [arjaː]
- Native to
- Bactria
- Region
- Central Asia
- Era
- 300 BC – 1000 AD
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Northeastern Sogdo-Bactrian Bactrian
- Writing system
- Bactrian script ( Greek ) , Manichaean script
- Official language in
- Kushan Empire , Hephthalite Empire
- Iso 639 3
- xbc
- Linguist list
- xbc
- Glottolog
- bact1239
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Bactrian (Bactrian: Αριαο, romanized: ariao [arjaː], meaning "Iranian") was an Eastern Iranian language formerly spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria (some regions of present-day Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) and used as the official language of the Kushan and the Hephthalite empires.
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