Bactrian (Bactrian: Αριαο, romanized: ariao, Bactrian pronunciation: [arjaː], meaning "Iranian") was an Eastern Iranian language formerly spoken in the...

Bactria (/ˈbæktriə/; Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia based in the area south of the Oxus River...

the Achaemenid Empire Bactrian language, an extinct Eastern Iranian language Bactrian camel, a species of camel in Asia Bactrian deer Bactria (disambiguation)...

The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (Greek: Βασιλεία τῆς Βακτριανῆς, romanized: Basileía tês Baktrianês, lit. 'Kingdom of Bactria') was a Greek state of the Hellenistic...

Gandhara region. In addition, Nuristani languages borrowed words for "law" and "judge" from the Iranian Bactrian language around the 1st century CE, suggesting...

statement that the language is affiliated with eastern Iranian languages there is ample evidence to consider it a Bactrian language. Comrie, Bernard (2009)...

Empire (c. 30–c. 375 CE) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. It spread to encompass much of what...

The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, romanized: Ebodalo), sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the Spet Xyon and...

Eastern Iranian language. It shares features with the Munji language, which is the closest existing language to the extinct Bactrian, but also shares...

Khorasan along with other Iranian dialects and languages, while the Sogdian, Bactrian and Khwarazmian languages were spoken further east in places which were...

Old Persian language The Avestan language The Bactrian language The term Proto-Aryan is an alternative name of the Proto-Indo-Iranian language In works published...

*bhag- 'to divide' (whence also Avestan bag- and Old Indic bháj-). The Bactrian language name of the city was βαχλο, i.e. Bakhlo. In Middle Persian texts,...

displays the closest possible linguistic affinity with the now-extinct Bactrian language. The Garam Chashma area became important during the Soviet–Afghan...

tribes in Transoxiana and Bactria, where they adopted the Kushan-Bactrian language. It should be known that there is no consensus about the linguistic...

Iranian language. It is one of the closest languages to Bactrian along with Munji and Yidgha, with Munji being the closest existing language to the extinct...

et al. hypothesizes that the language recorded is either "a missing link between Bactrian, Sogdian, the Saka languages, Old Ossetic/Alanic and ‘Old Steppe...

to take the title of Kushanshah (KΟÞANΟ ÞAΟ or Koshano Shao in the Bactrian language) or "King of the Kushans", and to mint coins. They are sometimes considered...

Kushan political history derives from coins. The language of inscriptions is typically the Bactrian language, written in a script derived from Greek. Many...

the Kushans, were influenced culturally by them and had adopted the Bactrian language. They had attacked the Sassanid Empire, but later (led by a chief...

to be called Aornos (Bactrian: οαρνο, romanized: warn) and later Walwalij or Varvaliz, a compound of the old name Warn and Bactrian: λιζο, romanized: lizo...

alphabetic position.: 38 ff.  In the Greek script used for writing the Bactrian language, there existed the letter Ϸ, which apparently stood for the sound...

can recognize definite Iranian elements, notably the Bactrian language as an administrative language and coin inscriptions. Göbl's first group were the...

signifies the Tokhari country and Tokhari settlements of Bactria. Bactrian Language inscriptions are also found in Tochi Valley, along with other places...

languages, the better understood and recorded ones are Middle Persian (from the Sasanian Empire), Parthian (from the Parthian Empire), and Bactrian (from...

France) used the Greek alphabet until the Roman conquest The Bactrian language, an Iranian language spoken in what is now Afghanistan, was written in the Greek...

The Alchon Huns, (Bactrian: αλχον(ν)ο Alkhon(n)o or αλχαν(ν)ο Alkhan(n)o) also known as the Alkhan, Alchono, Alxon, Alkhon, Alakhana, and Walxon, were...

documents in the Bactrian language in the Bactrian script (a variation of the Greek script dating back to the rule of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the...

The Khalaj (Bactrian: χαλασσ, romanized: Xalass; Persian: خلج‌ها, romanized: Xalajhâ) are a Turkic ethnic group who mainly reside in Iran. In Iran they...

san) was a letter added to the Greek alphabet in order to write the Bactrian language. It was similar in appearance to the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic letter...

Karakoram range to China. Around 127 CE, he replaced Greek with Bactrian as the official language of administration in the empire. Earlier scholars believed...