Chorasmian was an Iranian language spoken from antiquity up until approximately the 14th century CE in the historical region of Khwarizm south of the Aral Sea (today’s Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan).

The goal of the Chorasmian Online project is to make as many resources as possible available online for the study of the Chorasmian language. This includes annotated bibliographies of published scholarly works, links to online material such as digitized manuscripts or publications, and occasional blogposts discussing aspects of Chorasmian.

Chorasmian Online will also be home to an online dictionary of Chorasmian, building on the project first begun by Walter B. Henning in the 1960s, and continued by David N. MacKenzie in the 1990s, but never completed.

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Chorasmian Online is a project based in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, and run by Adam Benkato.

It is advised by Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS) and Pavel Lurje (Hermitage Museum). Special thanks to Slavomír Čéplö (Universität Bochum) for text processing assistance; to Ludwig Paul (Universität Hamburg) for facilitating access to the Nachlass of MacKenzie; and to Niek Veldhuis and Steve Tinney of ORACC for technical assistance with encoding the dictionary.

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