Old Chorasmian

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Old Chorasmian is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the historical region of Khwarezm, in what is now Central Asia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chorasmian 2
Old Chorasmian canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language ⓘ
Iranian language ⓘ
Middle Iranian language ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ
attestedIn coins ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ
royal decrees ⓘ
documentationStatus fragmentary ⓘ
extinctionStatus extinct ⓘ
geographicContext lower Amu Darya region ⓘ
linked to: Amu Darya region
hasCaseSystem true ⓘ
hasDescendant Chorasmian (later stage) ⓘ
hasGrammaticalGender true ⓘ
hasNumberDistinction plural ⓘ
singular ⓘ
historicalRegion Khwarezm ⓘ
influencedBy Imperial Aramaic ⓘ
ISO639-3 zkh ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European languages ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
lexicalBorrowingFrom Aramaic ⓘ
Middle Persian ⓘ
morphologicalType fusional ⓘ
phonologicalFeature typical Eastern Iranian consonant system ⓘ
regionNowIn Kazakhstan ⓘ
Turkmenistan ⓘ
Uzbekistan ⓘ
relatedTo Bactrian ⓘ
Khotanese ⓘ
Sogdian ⓘ
researchField Iranian linguistics ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ
scriptOrigin derived from Aramaic script ⓘ
scriptType abjad ⓘ
spokenIn Central Asia ⓘ
Chorasmia ⓘ
Khwarezm ⓘ
subgroupOf Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
timePeriod early Middle Ages ⓘ
late antiquity ⓘ
usedBy Chorasmian people ⓘ
usedFor administration ⓘ
law ⓘ
religion ⓘ
usesAramaicIdeograms true ⓘ
writingSystem Aramaic-derived script ⓘ
Chorasmian script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Old Iranian languages → hasPart → Old Chorasmian ⓘ
Unicode 13.0 → addsScript → Chorasmian ⓘ
linked to: Old Chorasmian
Unicode 13.0 → addsBlock → Chorasmian ⓘ
linked to: Old Chorasmian