Uncommon
Sogdian language
Extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia
Sogdian language
The Sogdian language (Sogdian: swγδyk) was an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Central Asian region of Sogdia (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khujand, and Bukhara), located in modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; it was also spoken by some Sogdian immigrant communities in ancient China. Sogdian is one of the most important Middle Iranian languages, along with Bactrian, Khotanese Saka, Middle Persian, and Parthian. It possesses a large literary corpus. The Sogdian language was the most important lingua franca of Mongolia, China, and Inner Asia, and one of the official languages of the First Turkic Khanate and also a lingua franca in the Uyghur Khanate. The Sogdian language is usually assigned to a Northeastern group of the Iranian languages. No direct evidence of an earlier version of the language ("Old Sogdian") has been found, although mention of the area in the Old Persian inscriptions means that a separate and recognisable...
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