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2 unusual facts about Bactrian language


Bactrian language

Of eight known manuscript fragments in Greco-Bactrian script, one is from Lou-lan and seven from Toyoq, where they were discovered by the second and third Turpan expeditions under Albert von Le Coq.

Pashtun tribal structure

Plārina is related to the Bactrian impression of Plār, which derives from Old Iranian piðar (in Bactrian and Pashto, Old Iranian /ð/ usually yields /l/), and is related to Sanskrit pidar and English "father".



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Ghōr Province

The name "Ghor" is a cognate to Avestan gairi-, Sanskrit giri- and Middle Persian gar, in modern Persian koh-, Sogdian gor-/gur-, in later developed Bactrian language as g´wrao- (also paravata), meaning "mountain", in modern Pashto as ghar-, in Pamir languages as gar- and ghalcca- ("mountain").

Nava Vihara

Van Bladel (p.68) has pointed out that this version of the name can be traced to the pronunciation in the Bactrian language.