Old Chorasmian

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Old Chorasmian is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the historical region of Khwarezm, in what is now Central Asia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chorasmian 2
Old Chorasmian canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
Middle Iranian language
extinct language
attestedIn coins
inscriptions
legal documents
religious texts
royal decrees
documentationStatus fragmentary
extinctionStatus extinct
geographicContext lower Amu Darya region
linked to: Amu Darya region
hasCaseSystem true
hasDescendant Chorasmian (later stage)
hasGrammaticalGender true
hasNumberDistinction plural
singular
historicalRegion Khwarezm
influencedBy Imperial Aramaic
ISO639-3 zkh
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
lexicalBorrowingFrom Aramaic
Middle Persian
morphologicalType fusional
phonologicalFeature typical Eastern Iranian consonant system
regionNowIn Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
relatedTo Bactrian
Khotanese
Sogdian
researchField Iranian linguistics
historical linguistics
scriptOrigin derived from Aramaic script
scriptType abjad
spokenIn Central Asia
Chorasmia
Khwarezm
subgroupOf Eastern Iranian languages
timePeriod early Middle Ages
late antiquity
usedBy Chorasmian people
usedFor administration
law
religion
usesAramaicIdeograms true
writingSystem Aramaic-derived script
Chorasmian script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Iranian languages hasPart Old Chorasmian
Unicode 13.0 addsScript Chorasmian
linked to: Old Chorasmian
Unicode 13.0 addsBlock Chorasmian
linked to: Old Chorasmian