An Old Khotanese Reader

The Tale of Bhadra

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This reader contains the complete text of the Buddhist ‘Tale of Bhadra’, the second chapter of the Old Khotanese Book of Zambasta, accompanied by a translation, commentary and glossary. All morphological forms occurring in the text are identified in the …

A Handbook of Khotanese

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Ronald E. Emmerick’s Handbook of Khotanese consists of two parts: his Introduction to Khotanese, tried and tested with students over the years and here made available in print for the first time; and a systematic survey of Khotanese and the …

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

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The nature of Old Khotanese metre has been a matter of controversy for more than a century. Nicholas Sims-Williams presents a new metrical analysis of the Book of Zambasta, the longest surviving Khotanese poem, arguing that the metre is based …

A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English

2nd edition, revised and completed

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Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to both Iranists and Syriacists, giving a full semantic and morphological analysis of the …

A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto

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Pashto, one of the national languages of Afghanistan, is an archaic language of the Iranian family with a vocabulary of extraordinary variety and interest. In his "New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto", Georg Morgenstierne identifies loanwords and traces inherited words back …

Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies

Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1995. Old and Middle Iranian Studies

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The 3rd European Conference of Iranian Studies, at which more than 130 papers were presented, was held in Cambridge in 1995. A selection of the best contributions will be published in two volumes, of which the second will be concerned …

Ilya Gershevitch: Philologia Iranica

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A selection of 25 important articles and reviews by the distinguished Iranianist Ily Gershevitch is reprinted in this volume marking the occason of his 70th birthday. The articles, all written in English, orginally appeared between 1942 and 1977 were corrected …