sound of Sogdian language - The tale of Rustam & Rakhsh

[@PARSA.Korosh.Ardashir1]

Šhāpūr I inscription located in Pars Providence of Iran. Middle-Persian translation: ādurgāh Abnūn ī pad šabestān āyēnīg framād kē kard ud ahy framāyēd kū-m agar dastan hē ēg ādur-ēw ēdar nišāyān. Pas ka abar (s)āl III Šābuhr šāhānšāh, ka Hrōmāy abar Pārs ud Pahlaw āyēnd, pas an ēdar pad* Wi(s)p-šād pad ǰaš(n) *(ā)[nān]. Pas kū *āšnawēn kū Hrōmāy āyēnd pas an yazdān *pāy[w]ēhēn kū [ag]ar [Šā]buhr ī š[āh]ānšāh *čēr[īhād]/*čēr[bawād] Hrōmāyīn zanād u-šān wattar kūnād [kū(š?) pad ban[da]gīh ēstēnd ēg *nixwārān tā ādur-ēw ēdar nišāyān. pas kū āšnūd kū Hrōmāy āmad hēnd ud Šābuhr ī šāhān šāh zad hēnd u-š wattar kard [*hēnd tā-n pad bandagīh ēstēnd ēg-im niwist ādur-ēw] nišāyān u-š Pattāy- Šābuhr-Abnūn nām kard. English translation: This fire-alter, Abnūn, the Master of Ceremonies of the Harem ordered that it should be made, and initially he said: If I am able, then I will establish this fire. Thereafter, in the year of Šābuhr, the king of kings, when the Romans came against "Pārs" and "(Pahlaw meaning Parthians)", then I was here, at Wisp-šād, at worship. After I heard the Romans were coming, then I implored the gods that if Šābuhr, the king of kings, were to be victorious, beat the Romans, and vanquish them, so that they were submissive to him, then I would hasten to establish a fire here. and it was named Remain Šāpūr.

[@PARSA.Korosh.Ardashir1]

@Adolf Hitler (the DNa inscription) on the upper left corner of Darius the great tomb entrance in Pars province of Iran "I am Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries containing all kinds of men, king in this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenid, a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage. King Darius says: By the favor of Ahuramazda these are the countries which I seized outside of Persia; I ruled over them; they bore tribute to me; they did what was said to them by me; they held my law firmly; Media, Elam, Parthia, Aria, Bactria, Sogdia, Chorasmia, Drangiana, Arachosia, Sattagydia, Gandara [Gadâra], India [Hiduš], the haoma-drinking Scythians, the Scythians with pointed caps, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, Cappadocia, Lydia, the Greeks (Yauna), the Scythians across the sea (Sakâ), Thrace, the petasos-wearing Greeks [Yaunâ], the Libyans, the Nubians, the men of Maka and the Carians.

[@PARSA.Korosh.Ardashir1]

@Adolf Hitler of course there is but how would you know being a Darvidian from Pakistan.

[@alpahlavi7959]

Definitely spunds Persian but still clearly different from modern Farsi. Lovely to listen to indeed.

[@suikzaxa9593]

This language has a total different morphology, phonology, grammar etc. It has several cognates with Persians but it doesn't sound like it.

[@alpahlavi7959]

@@suikzaxa9593 To my uneducated ears it does xD I remember a time I had great trouble telling apart Spanish and Italian.

[@khorasan123456]

@@alpahlavi7959 Spanish and Italian people can mostly understand each other (if they speak slowly) because of very similar grammar. here it's a written text and without a translation you wouldn't even be able to guess the most basic phrases.

[@rtam7097]

@@khorasan123456 Many times it sounds kinda Sanskritic, I mean the flow.

[@khorasan123456]

​​@@rtam7097 maybe

[@rtam7097]

Nice work.Bro I need some help from u regarding Khotanese Saka. I do have a lot of resources but want to create a voice sample, so was searching for a native east Iranian. So, where can I contact u?

[@khorasan123456]

Send me an e-mail [e-mail]

[@wolfieblack32]

​@khorasan123456 hi brother when sogdians rule central Asia where was turks who are living all central asia. What kind of contact was between them . Is there any article or books. Can you help me with it

[@maryb6074]

What a beautiful language.

[@pierangelobuscema787]

I’m italian but i love iranian languages,why?

[@alpahlavi7959]

Where we are born isn't necessarily where we are from xD

[@pierangelobuscema787]

@@alpahlavi7959 maybe I have some Scythian or Iranian ancestry

[@researcher7578]

The more distant something is, the more curiosity it causes

[@researcher7578]

​@@pierangelobuscema787 Maybe an Alanian family got astray and went to Italy during their route to settle in Spain :) ;)

[@pierangelobuscema787]

@@researcher7578 I come from Sicily and I know that in ancient times, before the Normans, there was the kingdom of the Vandals and alans

[@muhammedsener8241]

Nice

[@rationalmanav3085]

Who voice is this? Is it you?

[@khorasan123456]

Noo

[@RimRimando]

This sound Sanskrit with a greek accent

[@khorasan123456]

What a remarkable observation Little kid. You should really study linguistics because you totally figure it out.

[@ansarirbis7194]

Читает с китайским акцентом

[@RelaxingKenan]

Like kurdish

[@khorasan123456]

@@RelaxingKenan nope

[@Fakir926]

Походу читал китаец

[@khorasan123456]

Вот как это звучит. Спикер имеет академическое образование

[@lubossekk]

sounds awfull, the speaker often ignores to read š, ž as palatal sounds, ꞵ is often rendered as voiceless consonant... some words are either omitted in reading or read as something totally diferent :(

[@khorasan123456]

@@lubossekk stop crying you slavic/slav. Sogdian sounds are reconstructed & therefore nothing but hypothetical. No one knows what real Sogdian sounds like. So stop acting like you have a time machine

[@lubossekk]

@@khorasan123456 i'm not crying - i'm studiing sogdian and yaghnobi for almost 20 years and even though i know that sogdian is reconstructed, i have some clues how the language soundes... i teach the language at university and, btw, i am the author of the phonetic transcription of the language used as a basis for reading... so yea, i know nothing, because i am slav

[@khorasan123456]

@@lubossekk In the end, it’s more of an educated guess rather than a certainty. Yaghnobi is too distinct from Sogdian to be a reliable reference, wouldn't you say? So, when it comes to reconstructing the sound system, we're really just speculating. We might be 90, 80, or 60 percent accurate, but there's also a possibility that our reconstruction is entirely off.

[@khorasan123456]

@@lubossekk then why you don't upload your lessons online so we can benefit from it? Show us how Sogdian sounded like or are you interested in the commercial selling of these lessons?

[@lubossekk]

@@khorasan123456 my lessons are online (same as my research that is not under copyright), however, i don't do recordings when i teach... i don't do recordings also as i am aware that we can reconstruct some parts of sogdian phonology, but many aspects, e.g. as pitch accent or clause stress are lost forever...