History
During the Chinese Tang Dynasty Sogdian was the lingua franca along the Silk Road, along which it amassed a rich vocabulary by loan words such as tym ("hotel") from the Chinese diàn (店). The economic and political importance of the language guaranteed its survival in the first few centuries after the Islamic conquest of Sogdiana in the early eighth century AD. A dialect of Sogdian, called Yaghnobi, has survived into the 21st century. It is spoken by mountain dwellers in the Yaghnob valley.
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