Scythian

group of Eastern Iranian languages
Language language_family Q749834
Scythian
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Scythian

Summary

Scythian is a language family[1]. Scythian ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (546 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Scythian is located in Scythia[3].
  • Scythian is located in Sarmatia[4].
  • Scythian's image is recorded as Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei ante 1467 (7456265) (cropped).jpg[5].
  • Scythian's instance of is recorded as language family[6].
  • Scythian's instance of is recorded as ancient language[7].
  • Scythian's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as xsc[8].
  • Scythian's subclass of is recorded as Eastern Iranian[9].
  • Scythian's IETF language tag is recorded as xsc[10].
  • Scythian's part of is recorded as Old Iranian[11].
  • Scythian's part of is recorded as Middle Iranian[12].
  • Scythian's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03rqhx[13].
  • Scythian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scythian languages[14].
  • Scythian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[15].
  • Scythian's Linguist List code is recorded as xsc[16].
  • Scythian's Linguist List code is recorded as scyt[17].
  • Scythian's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Scytho-Sarmatian-language[18].
  • Scythian's indigenous to is recorded as Scythians[19].
  • Scythian's indigenous to is recorded as Sarmatians[20].
  • Scythian's indigenous to is recorded as Alans[21].
  • Scythian's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/XSC[22].
  • Scythian's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3623372[23].
  • Scythian's Iranica ID is recorded as scythian-language[24].
  • Scythian's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtARAb6yaBf7[25].
  • Scythian's Krugosvet article is recorded as gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/SKIFSKI_YAZIK.html[26].
  • Scythian's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3973414[27].

Why It Matters

Scythian ranks in the top 7% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (546 views/month).[2] Scythian has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Scythian is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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