Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples

Zusatztext Sir Harold would no doubt have delighted in reading every article within this excellent collection. Klappentext The exciting recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed by a group of internationally renowned linguists and archaeologists. In the last few years the materials available for the study of the older Indo-Iranian languages have increased dramatically: there have been sensational discoveries of texts in the ancient languages of north-west India and northern Afghanistan. Previously known data has been exploited in new ways using innovative techniques for compiling, manipulating and disseminating electronic text and digital images. And archaeological finds in India, Pakistan and Central Asia have given rise to new hypotheses concerning the history and pre-history of the Indo-Iranian peoples. Zusammenfassung In this volume, developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed by a group of internationally renowned linguists and archaeologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Hunting the hapax: Sir Harold W. Bailey (1899-1996) Archaeological Models and Asian Indo-Europeans The Nuristani Languages Gandhari and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages in the Light of Newly-Discovered Karosthi Manuscripts Pali and the Languages of Early Buddhism The Vocabulary of Buddhist Sanskrit: Problems and Perspectives The Avestan Language and its Problems Scythian Elements in Old Iranian Regional Interaction in Central Asia and Northwest India in the Kidarite and Hephthalite Periods Ancient Afghanistan and its Invaders: Linguistic Evidence from the Bactrian Documents and Inscriptions Tocharian and Indo-Iranian: Relations between Two Linguistic Areas Professor Sir Harold Bailey: An Appreciation

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• Authors: Sims-Williams, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Nicholas (Professor of Iranian and Sims-Williams
• Assisted by: Nicholas Simswilliams (Editor), Nicholas Sims-Williams (Editor), Nicholas (Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies Sims-Williams (Editor), Sims-Williams Nicholas (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2003
• EAN: 9780197262856
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726285-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca; Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Archaeology by period / region, Historical and comparative linguistics, Indo-Iranian Languages