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Language code: sog

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sog

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The table below provides technical details for the Sogdian language, designated by the sog code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

sog

Name

Sogdian

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Early (Ancient-Letters) SogdianBuddhist SogdianChristian SogdianManichaean Sogdian
Related languages
YaghnobiBactrianKhwarezmianKhotanese SakaPashto
Key facts
Was the main lingua franca of commerce on the Silk Road between the 4th–8th centuries CEIts only living descendant is Yaghnobi, still spoken in parts of TajikistanSogdian was written in several scripts (own national script, Manichaean, Syriac, and later Arabic)The Sogdian/Old Uyghur alphabet later gave rise to the traditional Mongolian scriptThousands of Sogdian documents have been unearthed in Dunhuang and Turpan, providing rich evidence for Middle Iranian studies
Sample phrase

𐼲𐼴𐼵𐼷, 𐼶𐼵 𐼱𐼿𐼸 𐼹𐼿𐼱?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Sogdian language, identified by the code sog, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Ancient' by its type.

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