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| Alanic | |
|---|---|
| Alanian | |
 The Zelenchuk Inscription, an inscripton in Alanic. | |
| Native to | Alania, the Kingdom of the Alans in Hispania and the Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans |
| Region | North Caucasus, Iberia and the Maghreb |
| Ethnicity | Alans |
| Era | 1st–13th century AD[1] developed into Ossetian and Jassic |
| unwritten, rarely Greek | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xln |
xln | |
| Glottolog | None |
Alanic (also known as Alanian),[2] was a language spoken by the Alans from about the 1st to the 13th centuries AD.[1] It formed a dialect directly descended from the earlier Scytho-Sarmatian languages, which in turn formed the Ossetian language. Byzantine Greek authors recorded only a few fragments of this language.[3] The Alans, who were a part of the Migration Period, brought their language to Iberia and the Maghreb[clarification needed] in 409 AD before being displaced by the invading Visigoths[2] and the Byzantine Empire.
Unlike Pontic Scythian, Ossetian did not experience the evolution of the Proto-Scythian sound /d/ to /δ/ and then /l/, although the sound /d/ did evolve into /δ/ at the beginning of Ossetian words.[4]
According to Magomet Isayev, the Zelenchuk inscription and other historical data give reason to assume that in the 10th-13th centuries, the Alans already had their own unique written language based on the Greek alphabet. However subsequent historical events resulted in this written tradition being lost.[5]
After the Mongols destroyed the Alan state, they retreated to the mountains of the Caucasus and mixed with the indigenous population, forming the modern-day Ossetians and the Ossetian language.[6]
- ^ a b Leila Dodykhudoeva. "The socio-linguistic situation and state of research of the Ossetic language". aber.ac.uk. Academia.edu. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
- ^ a b "Alanic". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
The extinct unknown language of the Alans, who came from Asia and overran the Iberian Peninsula around AD 409, before being displaced by the Visigoths.
- ^ Ladislav Zgusta, "The old Ossetian Inscription from the River Zelenčuk" (Veröffentlichungen der Iranischen Kommission = Sitzungsberichte der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse 486) Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987. ISBN 3-7001-0994-6Cited in Kim, Ronald (2003). "On the Historical Phonology of Ossetic: The Origin of the Oblique Case Suffix". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 123 (1): 43–72 [54]. doi:10.2307/3217844. JSTOR 3217844.
- ^ Ivantchik, Askold I. (1999). "Une légende sur l'origine des Scythes (HDT. IV 5–7) et le problème des sources du Scythicos logos d'Hérodote" [A Legend on the Origin of the Scythians (Hdt. IV 5–7) and the problems of the sources of Herodotus's Scythicos logos]. Revue des Études Grecques [Review of Greek Studies]. 112 (1): 156–158. doi:10.3406/reg.1999.4355. JSTOR 44260011.
- ^ "Всеволод Фёдорович Миллер" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2011-09-12. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
- ^ Jazyki mira: Iranskije jazyki. III. Vostotšnoiranskije jazyki. Indrik. 1999. pp. 105–106. ISBN 5-85759-107-4.