Editing Scythian languages (section)

===Aristophanes===

In the comedy works of [[Aristophanes]], the dialects of various Greek people are accurately imitated. In his ''[[Thesmophoriazusae]]'', a [[Scythian archer]] (a member of a police force in Athens) speaks broken Greek, consistently omitting the final ''-s'' ({{lang|grc|-ς}}) and ''-n'' ({{lang|grc|ν}}), using the [[Fortis and lenis|lenis]] in place of the [[Aspirated consonant|aspirate]], and once using ''ks'' ({{lang|grc|ξ}}) in place of ''s'' ([[sigma]]); these may be used to elucidate the Scythian languages.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Donaldson |first1=John William |author-link1=John William Donaldson |title=Varronianus: A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Philological Study of the Latin Language |url=https://archive.org/details/varronianusacri00donagoog |date=1844 |publisher=J. and J. J. Deighton |page=[https://archive.org/details/varronianusacri00donagoog/page/n54 32] |language=en}}</ref>