Khotanese

by Ronald E. Emmerick completed and edited by Mauro Maggi, John S. Sheldon and Nicholas Sims-Williams

A Handbook of Khotanese

Ronald E. Emmerick’s Handbook of Khotanese consists of two parts: an Introduction to Khotanese, and a systematic survey of Khotanese and the closely related Tumshuqese language....

Dragoni, Federico

Watañi lāntaṃ

Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian

Contacts between Tocharian A and B and Khotanese and Tumshuqese, four languages once spoken in today’s Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, lack a comprehensive...

Sims-Williams, Nicholas

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

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...