Monday, February 23, 2026

Text, script and language in Bactria and Serindia

This collective volume unites ten papers by international specialists in history, philology, linguistics, palaeography and archaeology, dealing with texts written in Bactrian, Khotanese, Tumshuqese, Tocharian, and Gāndhārī (Niya-Prakrit) from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Northwest China, as well as with classical Chinese Buddhist scriptures and the newly discovered Almosi inscriptions of Tajikistan. With studies of the Kharoṣṭhī, Brāhmī, Graeco-Bactrian scripts and the “unknown Kushan script”, the book presents important advances in longstanding problems of Central Asian philology. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students working on cultural and linguistic interactions in Kushan and post-Kushan times.  
2026
350 p., E-book
Open Access
ISBN: 9783752003635
ISBN print: 9783752009248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29091/9783752003635
urn:nbn:de:0306-9783752003635-9

 



 

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