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On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang

Tracking The Tarim Mummies

"A solution to the puzzle of Indo-European origins?


17 posted on 06/25/2008 6:53:17 PM PDT by blam
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_languages

Saka language or Scytho-Khotanese in the east: spoken in the Kingdom of Khotan (located in present-day Xinjiang, China), and including the Khotanese of Khotan and Tumshuqese of Tumshuq. Scholars classify these languages as part of the North-Eastern branch of Iranian languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka_language

Saka is an extinct Iranian language which was spoken in Xinjiang, China. There are two known dialects, identified with the cities of Khotan and Tumxuk. Many Prakrit terms were borrowed from the Khotan dialect of Saka into the Tocharian languages.[1]


19 posted on 06/25/2008 7:05:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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