Langenesis

Indo-European family

Sogdian

c. 400 BCE – 1000 CE Extinct

Sogdian (c. 400 BCE – 1000 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Iranian → Sogdian.

See Sogdian on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
sog
Glottocode
sogd1245

Eastern Middle Iranian of Sogdiana (Samarkand, Bukhara) and Silk Road lingua franca; script ancestral to Old Uyghur and Mongolian writing.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Sogdianc. 400 BCE – 1000 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 16

Also descended from Proto-Iranian.

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