Sunday, July 22, 2007

Sogdian Primer

Norweigian linguist Prods Oktor Skjærvø generously provide us an excellent introduction of Sogdian online.

Sogdian is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Sogdiana, many precious Manichean, Buddhist and Nestorian Christian corpus are written in this language.

The Sogdian Primer provided by Prods Oktor Skjærvø extensively covers major grammatical aspect of the language, the main script used in the primer is Manichean, but in the beginning of the lesson, comparison with Christian and Sogdian 1 scripts is provided.

The Sogdian Primer can be downloaded in pdf file at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Sogdian/index.html

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