WebBactria (/ ˈ b æ k t r i ə /; Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient region in Central Asia in Amu Darya's middle stream, stretching north of the Hindu Kush, west of the Pamirs and south of the Gissar range, covering the northern part of Afghanistan, southwestern Tajikistan and southeastern Uzbekistan.. Called "beautiful Bactria, …

WebAvestan (/ ə ˈ v ɛ s t ən /), or historically Zend, or by the speakers as Upastavakaena ([ʊpas.taˈvakˈaeːna]) is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scriptural language of …

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WebAttic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens.Often called classical Greek, it was the prestige dialect of the Greek world for centuries and remains the standard form of the language that is taught to students of ancient Greek.As the basis of the Hellenistic Koine, it is the most similar of the ancient dialects to …

WebThe Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the …

WebEta / ˈ iː t ə, ˈ eɪ t ə / (uppercase Η, lowercase η; Ancient Greek: ἦτα ē̂ta or Greek: ήτα ita) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel IPA: .Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative IPA: in most dialects, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long open-mid front unrounded vowel IPA ...

WebOssetian (/ ɒ ˈ s ɛ t i ə n /, / ɒ ˈ s iː ʃ ə n /, / oʊ ˈ s iː ʃ ə n /), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete (ирон ӕвзаг, irōn ӕvzag), is an Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Greater Caucasus.It is the native language of the Ossetian people, and is one of the few Iranian languages ...

WebPronunciation Ancient Greek. Its value in Ancient Greek was an aspirated velar stop /kʰ/ (in the Western Greek alphabet: /ks/).. Koine Greek. In Koine Greek and later dialects it became a fricative ([x] / [ç]) along with Θ and Φ.. Modern Greek. In Modern Greek, it has two distinct pronunciations: In front of high or front vowels (/e/ or /i/) it is pronounced as a …

WebThe Bayer designation naming scheme for stars typically uses the first Greek letter, α, for the brightest star in each constellation, and runs through the alphabet before switching to Latin letters. In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the variables denoted by Greek letters used to describe the risk of certain investments.

WebBalochi or Baluchi (بلۏچی) is an Iranian language spoken primarily in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.In addition, there are speakers in Oman, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkmenistan, East Africa and in diaspora communities in other parts of the world. The total number of speakers, according to Ethnologue, is 8.75 million.