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Lurje P. Arabosogdica: Place-names in Transoxiana as Written in Arabic Script // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 7, No 4, December 2001. P. 22-29.
Among all of the non-Persian Iranian toponyms of Mawarannahr that have come down to us thanks to medieval sources (some 1,000 items), the vast majority (80—90%) are those mentioned in Islamic Arabic, Persian and Turkic sources. This multilingual group is united by certain general characteristics — a single cultural environment, a great deal of mutual influence, and, most important, a single tradition of writing. The transmission of Sogdian glosses through the Arabic script is the topic of the present article… PDF-files
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Keywords
Arabic script
Manuscripta Orientalia, selected papers
Mawarannahr
Sogdian phonetics
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