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Dictionary of Khotan Saka

By Harold Walter Bailey

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1979
ISBN
0521217377, 9780521217378
LCC
PK6199.8.Z5 B3
Open Library ID
OL4408784M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
94 MB (98741044 bytes)
Edition
1st edition
Pages
559\288
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Языки и языкознание;Хотаносакский язык;Словари и р

Description

The Cambridge University Press published (1945-1967) in six volumes Professor Bailey's transcriptions of Saka manuscripts found in Sin Kiang and Kansu (of the ancient kingdom of Khotan). They are central to any study of Old Iranian and the Iranian dialects; and they are also important for further understanding of the religious tradition in the sacred Avesta of the Zoroastrians, and for the history of the peoples of Central Asia generally. This 1979 dictionary represents the fulfilment of a plan formed in 1934 which required first the editing and transcription of the manuscripts, and then the slow elucidation of the whole corpus of texts. It contains a linguistic analysis and translation of all the Iranian words used in the texts. It is the necessary key to the understanding of the texts, to the mastery of the language itself, and to the linking of Khotan Saka into the Indo-European linguistic tradition.

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