Editing Scythian languages (section)

===Issyk inscription===
The [[Issyk inscription]] is not yet certainly deciphered, and is probably in a Scythian dialect, constituting one of very few [[autochthonous language|autochthonous]] epigraphic traces of that language. [[János Harmatta]], using the [[Kharoṣṭhī]] script, identified the language as a [[Khotanese Saka]] dialect spoken by the [[Kushans]], tentatively translating:{{sfn|Harmatta|1992|p=412}}
{| class ="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Issyk inscription
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!Transliteration
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| '''1'''
| {{transliteration|xsc|za(ṃ)-ri ko-la(ṃ) mi(ṃ)-vaṃ vaṃ-va pa-zaṃ pa-na de-ka mi(ṃ)-ri-to}}
| {{lang|en|The vessel should hold wine of grapes, added cooked food, so much, to the mortal, }}
|-
| '''2'''
| {{transliteration|xsc|ña-ka mi pa-zaṃ vaṃ-va va-za(ṃ)-na vaṃ.}}
| {{lang|en|then added cooked fresh butter on}}
|-
|}