Saka, or Sakan, was a variety of Eastern Iranian languages, attested from the ancient Buddhist kingdoms of Khotan, Kashgar and Tumshuq in the Tarim Basin...
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genetic influx, with the Saka language forming part of the Scythian phylum, one of the Eastern Iranian languages. However, the Sakas of the Asian steppes...
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epigraphic traces of that language. János Harmatta, using the Kharoṣṭhī script, identified the language as a Khotanese Saka dialect spoken by the Kushans...
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Marrevone (Coastal Makhuwa; 460,000 including eNahara) eNahara (Naharra) eSaka (Saka, 210,000) Ruvuma Makhuwa (Tanzanian Makhuwa, including subdialects Imithupi...
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Bukayo Ayoyinka Temidayo Saka (born 5 September 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Premier League club Arsenal...
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Massagetae (redirect from Sakā Tigraxaudā)
Massagetae or Massageteans, also known as Sakā tigraxaudā or Orthocorybantians, were an ancient Eastern Iranian Saka people who inhabited the steppes of Central...
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s, z, with loss of the glide *w, but without further fronting. The Saka language, attested in the Middle Iranian period, and its modern relative Wakhi...
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Indo-Scythians (redirect from Saka Kingdom)
The Indo-Scythians (also called Indo-Sakas) were a group of nomadic people of Iranic Scythian origin who migrated from Central Asia southward into the...
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Western Satraps (redirect from Saka Satrap)
Kshatrapas (Brahmi:, Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps") were Indo-Scythian (Saka) rulers of the western and central parts of India (extending from Saurashtra...
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Kingdom of Khotan (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
The Kingdom of Khotan was an ancient Buddhist Saka kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert...
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Tarim Basin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
it semantically with the name Saka, for the Iranian inhabitants of Khotan... In Northwest China, Khotanese-Saka-language documents, ranging from medical...
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Maues (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
form Maúēs (Μαύης), both of which are variants of the same Scythian Saka language name *Mava, meaning "tiger" and "hero". Another form of Maues's name...
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Look up Saka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saka were the Achaemenid "Scythian" satrapy. Saka may also refer to: Scythians Indo-Scythians Saka era,...
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covers an area 40 square kilometres (15 sq mi). Såka consists of five different areas: Övre-Såka, Såka, Wentjärvi, Koivisto, and Rasmus. The oldest stone...
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and *x in most Iranian languages. However, they appear to be retained in Parachi, varieties of Kurdish, and the Saka languages (Khotanese and Tumshuqese...
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Dahae (category Articles containing Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)-language text)
from a Saka language name meaning "man," based on the common practice among various peoples of calling themselves "man" in their own languages. This term...
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Subeshi culture (category Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text)
Subeshi mummies may have spoken the Saka language (Khotanese Saka) or the Tocharian language, or an unknown language if they were derived from a local Neolithic...
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of these languages survive now only in the Ossete language of the Caucasus and the Wakhi language of the Pamirs, the latter related to the Saka once spoken...
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Saka (坂町, Saka-chō) is a town located in Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2023[update], the town had an estimated population of...
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Ekka Saka is a 2015 Tulu language film, directed by K. Sooraj Shetty and produced by Lion Kishore D. Shetty for Lukumi Cine Creations. It stars Hitesh...
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Syr Darya (category Articles containing Kazakh-language text)
''' The word belongs to the Sogdian dialect that had emerged from the Saka language group. When the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great reached the Jaxartes...
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Saka-saka is a 2013 Filipino action film co-written and directed by Toto Natividad. The film stars Ejay Falcon and Joseph Marco. It was one of the entries...
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Aji Saka is a Javanese legend that tells the story of how civilization came to Java, brought by the legendary first king of Java named Aji Saka, and the...
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Pashtuns (category Articles containing Hindi-language text)
and is connected to a Saka language akin to Khotanese. In fact major linguist Georg Morgenstierne has described Pashto as a Saka dialect and many others...
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Saka Haphong (Bengali: সাকা হাফং, Burmese: ဆကးအဖောင် တောင်) is a peak in Southeast Asia and South Asia which was discovered by A.K.M Shahidullah Kaiser...
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Shule Kingdom (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
people of the Kingdom of Khotan, people of Kashgar spoke Saka, one of the Eastern Iranian languages. Although a vassal of the Chinese Tang dynasty from the...
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Theories of Pashtun origin (section Saka theory)
has described Pashto as a Saka dialect and many others have observed the similarities between Pashto and other Saka languages as well, suggesting that...
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Sogdia (category Articles containing Avestan-language text)
Iranian language called Sogdian, closely related to Bactrian, Khwarazmian, and the Khotanese Saka language, widely spoken Eastern Iranian languages of Central...
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better considered language areas rather than genetic groups. The languages are as follows: Old Iranian period Northeast: Scythian, Old Saka,† etc. Central...
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