Before the arrival of Iranian peoples in Central Asia, Sogdiana had already experienced at least two urban phases. The first was at Sarazm (4th-3rd m. BCE), a town of some 100 hectares has been excavated, where both irrigation agriculture and metallurgy were practiced (Isakov). It has been possible to demonstrate the magnitude of links with the civilization of the Oxus as well as with more distant regions, such as Baluchistan.
I'm Iranian and Sogdian(Yaghobi and Pamiri) are Native Language Of Tajiks but After Islam when Sogdian Language Destroyed Tajik people Themselves Chosen Persian Language in Samanid Daynsty
AI answer: Sogdian religion was diverse, encompassing Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism) in their homeland and a variety of faiths, including Buddhism, Christianity, and Manichaeism, in the diaspora and through contact with other cultures. Mazdaism was the dominant religion in Sogdiana itself, with a unique blend of Zoroastrian beliefs and local practices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmbuCSx5peU
We Buddhists in the West also need to become more aware of Mahayana as a Central Asian phenomenon and the sutras composed in the early CE speaking (in part) to disputes with dualists such as the Manichaeans and Zoroastrians. Some even believe that Bodhidharma himself was a Sogdian.
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sogdiana-iii-history-and-archeology/
BMAC/Oxus Civilization collapsed and all of its Qala-like settlements were abandoned in the century or so in the century 1700-1600 BCE....
As a proud Iranian-Pamiri,I understood about 65% of Sogdian.My ancestors migrated deep into the mountains after Central Asia got waves of invasions by arabs,mongols and turks so not only we have preserved the language,but also a lot of the Zoroastrian customs too.
Sogdian samples from the 1st-3rd Cent . AD show 12-15 percent east asian ancestry which is identical to the east asian component of Flatland tājīks.
Proto-Iranian speakers had first Iranized the Oxus civilization and then migrated into the Iranian plateau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X732jf6t4kE
Bukhara and Samarkand are tājīk cities who became part of fake Uzbekistan state during Soviet Union
The Tajik language is a continuation of the Sogdian language. Yagnobian is close to the Ossetian and Khorezmian languages. We are not Persianized, our dialect is so different from Persian that it can be categorized as a separate language. The problem is that an official Persian variety is used in School, TV etc. The regular tajik dialect is unique in terms of grammar, phonology, vocabulary etc.
eastern Iranian languages (pashtun, khwarezmian, sogdian , bactrian , scythian)
The ancient Persian languages are now considered dead languages: *Bactirian, *Sogdian *Khorezmian *Parthian.... At the risk of their own lives, some of the ancient Persian languages have survived to this day. These include: ** pashto- **Ossetian **Pamir **Yaghnobi The ancient Persian languages that we called are closely related to the languages of the Indian, or Indo-Aryan, group, which includes, in addition to modern ones, the Vedic dialect, Sanskrit, and Pali, attested by ancient texts. Together with the Indo-Aryan languages, the Iranian languages constitute the Indo-Iranian, or Aryan, branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The latter also includes Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Romance, Greek, Armenian languages?? and a number of others. The closeness of these languages, manifested in a number of ways even now, but much greater in ancient times, indicates their genetic relationship.
as someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, many of the less obvious words were recognisable like the sogdian word for husband is wir, sounds like it's related to vira (young man, hero), wana for tree sounds like sanskrit vana (forest in sanskrit), daruka for wood is pretty much the same, and sanskrit gau and sogdian ğau are similar sounding too
read about the Centum-Satem isoglosses and you will understand why the Balto-Slavic languages are similar to the Indo-Iranian languages. The issue here is not at all about the mythical “intersection of cultures.”
Here's another piece preserved in Sino-Japanese musical scores that is probably of Sogdian origin (look up this video): Tang Dynasty music 唐代音乐 from China: "Sumozhe"《苏莫者》
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