However, after the end of the Uighur Empire, Sogdian trade went through a crisis. |
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The first missionaries and translators of Buddhists scriptures into Chinese were either Parthian, Kushan, Sogdian, or Kuchean. |
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Its author is one of the most prominent scholars of Middle Iranian languages and literatures in general and of Sogdian in particular. |
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The second concordance lists the fragments with texts in languages besides Sogdian, including Middle Persian, Parthian, Old Turkic, and Chinese. |
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