Utengo - Utengo

Japanese: 于闐語 - うてんご
Utengo - Utengo

...The language of the Central Asian Saka language, which is related to the language of the Saka people who flourished in northwestern India and Afghanistan from before Christ, is the language of documents excavated in Khotan. This language belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family (Medieval Iranian language), and is also called Khotanese or Yutian (the Chinese name for Khotan). Khotanese Saka documents are thought to have been written by around the middle of the 10th century.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Yuma language" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…紀元前より西北インド,アフガニスタンで栄えたサカ族の言語と関係づけられる中央アジア・サカ語のうち,ホータン出土文献の言語をいう。この言語はインド・ヨーロッパ語族のイラン語派(中世イラン語)に属し,ホータン語あるいは于闐(うてん)(ホータンの漢名)語ともいう。ホータン・サカ語文献はだいたい10世紀中葉までに書かれたと考えられている。…

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出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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