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0200 Ancient Khotan : vol.1
古代コータン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000182
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in character, must relate to objects of ordinary life, suggest that they belong to a language
which had once been commonly used in this region. The character of the 'unknown' language
which is found in a number of manuscript texts and fresco inscriptions from Dandān-Uiliq and
Endere, and which may well prove to be the source of those non-Indian terms in the older
Kharoṣṭhī documents, points to the same conclusion. For Dr. Hoernle, who has carefully analysed
a number of similar texts, probably translations of Sanskrit originals into the language of the
country, has from the general character of the language derived the impression 'that its identity
has to be looked for in the direction of the monosyllabic Tibetan rather than of the Turkī or
Mongol languages' ³¹. Finally, we may note in passing that the hypothesis just indicated would
furnish also the best explanation for a number of ancient local names of the Khotan region
which suggest Tibetan origin, and which yet are anterior to the historical period of Tibetan
invasions ³².

I need scarcely point out that most, if not all, that relates to the ethnic evolution of the
Khotan people previous to the Muhammadan period, must in the present state of our knowledge
remain distinctly conjectural. Yet I believe that the comparison we have just concluded between
the actual anthropology of the oasis and the extant data concerning its earlier inhabitants may
help us in interpreting correctly historical records and archaeological facts.