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 birch-bark scrolls bearing Buddhist texts in the Gandhari language
of north-west India, and of leather documents in Bactrian, the ancient language of 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, including the 'Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex', have given rise to new hypotheses concerning the history and pre-history of the Indo-Iranian peoples.The volume also pays tribute to the pioneer work of the great philologist Sir Harold Bailey (1899-1996).
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 birch-bark scrolls bearing Buddhist texts in the Gandhari language
of north-west India, and of leather documents in Bactrian, the ancient language of 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, including the 'Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex', have given rise to new hypotheses concerning the history and pre-history of the Indo-Iranian peoples.The volume also pays tribute to the pioneer work of the great philologist Sir Harold Bailey (1899-1996).
Ronald E. Emmerick: Hunting the hapax: Sir Harold W. Bailey
(1899-1996)
J.K. Mallory: Archaeological Models and Asian Indo-Europeans
Asko Parpola: The Nuristani Languages
Richard Salomon: Gandhari and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages in the
Light of Newly-Discovered Karosthi Manuscripts
K.R. Norman: Pali and the Languages of Early Buddhism
O Von Hin"uber: The Vocabulary of Buddhist Sanskrit: Problems and
Perspectives
Jost Gippert: The Avestan Language and its Problems
Alexander Lubotsky: Scythian Elements in Old Iranian
Frantz Grenet: Regional Interaction in Central Asia and Northwest
India in the Kidarite and Hephthalite Periods
Nicholas Sims-Williams: Ancient Afghanistan and its Invaders:
Linguistic Evidence from the Bactrian Documents and
Inscriptions
Georges-Jean Pinault: Tocharian and Indo-Iranian: Relations between
Two Linguistic Areas
Ilya Gershevitch: Professor Sir Harold Bailey: An Appreciation
Sir Harold would no doubt have delighted in reading every article
within this excellent collection.
*Almut Hintze, Springer Scientce and Business Media*
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