{"id":2733,"date":"2026-05-23T22:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:12:48","slug":"for-centuries-the-people-of-central-asia-spoke-one-language-but-wrote-in-another-greek-aramaic-or-prakrit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"For Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or Prakrit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labrujulaverde.com\/en\/2026\/05\/for-centuries-the-people-of-central-asia-spoke-one-language-but-wrote-in-another-greek-aramaic-or-prakrit\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"For Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or Prakrit\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.labrujulaverde.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heliodorus-Pillar2-1.webp\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.labrujulaverde.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">For Centuries, the People of Central Asia Spoke One Language but Wrote in Another: Greek, Aramaic, or Prakrit<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Imagine if suddenly all documents written in Spanish, English, or French disappeared, and the only things left from our era were a few administrative texts in Latin and Ancient Greek. Something like that happened for centuries in the heart of Central Asia, according to a new study published by the U<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}