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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

*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,...

Uzbek Southern Uzbek / Afghan Uzbek (strong Iranian substrate from Bactrian language and heavily Persianized) (many are bilingual in Dari / Dari Persian...

Empire), and Bactrian (from the Kushan and Hephthalite empires). As of 2000s[update], Ethnologue estimates that there are 86 languages in the group....

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...

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

𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹, ariyaʰ; Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭫‎, er; Parthian: 𐭀𐭓𐭉‎, ary; Bactrian: αρια, aria) was the ethnonym used by Iranians during the early History...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi. The hoard found there is often known as the Bactrian gold. The hoard is a collection of about 20,600 ornaments, coins and other...

chieftains of tribes of Bactria known as Abgan or Avagana (Afğân) or Bactrian: αβγανο (Abgân) the exact origin or etymology of the term is not known...

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...

(2010), Selected Features of Bactrian Grammar (PhD thesis), University of Göttingen, p.25, 59 Sims-Williams, N. "Bactrian Language". Encyclopaedia Iranica...

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...

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...