Khwarezmian

E230683

Khwarezmian is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the historical region of Khwarezm, in what is now parts of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Khwarezmian canonical 4
Khorezmian 1
Khwarazmian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
extinct language
alternativeName Chorasmian
Khorezmian
linked to: Khwarezmian

Khwarazmian
linked to: Khwarezmian
documentedBy al-Biruni
linked to: Al-Biruni
documentedIn Arabic-script manuscripts
extinction around 13th century
glottocode khwa1239
hasLinguisticFeature influenced by Middle Persian
shares features with Bactrian
shares features with Sogdian
historicalRegion Khwarezm
ISO639-3 xwar
languageBranch Indo-Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Iranian languages
lexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic
Middle Persian
linguisticArea Central Asia
linguisticStage Middle Iranian language
modernTerritory Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
morphologicalType fusional
neighboringLanguages Chorasmian Turkic
Sogdian
linked to: Sogdian language
phonologicalType consonant-rich
predecessor Old Iranian dialects of Khwarezm
region Khwarezm
religiousContext Islamic
Zoroastrian
linked to: Zoroastrianism
scriptType abjad
scriptUsagePeriod Islamic period of Khwarezm
linked to: Islamic period
spokenIn Khwarezm oasis
linked to: Khwarezm

lower Amu Darya region
linked to: Amu Darya region
status extinct
subfamily Eastern Iranian languages
successor Khwarezmian Turkic languages
timePeriod early Middle Ages
late antiquity
usedIn administrative documents
legal documents
religious texts
writingInfluence Aramaic
writingSystem Arabic script
Aramaic-derived script
Perso-Arabic script

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Middle Iranian languages hasPart Khwarezmian
Khwarezmian alternativeName Khwarazmian
linked to: Khwarezmian
Khwarezmian alternativeName Khorezmian
linked to: Khwarezmian