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Tocharian
[toh-kair-ee-uhn, -kahr-]
noun
a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
the language of the Tocharians, an extinct Indo-European language, having an eastern dialect Tocharian A and a western dialect Tocharian B, records of which date from a.d. c600–c1000.
adjective
of or relating to the Tocharians or their language.
Tocharian
/ ɒˈɑːɪə /
noun
a member of an Asian people with a complex material culture, sometimes thought to be of European origin, who lived in the Tarim Basin until overcome by the Uighurs around 800 ad
the language of this people, known from records in a N Indian script of the 7th and 8th centuries ad . It belongs to the Indo-European family, is regarded as forming an independent branch, and shows closer affinities with the W or European group than with the E or Indo-Iranian group. The language is recorded in two dialects, known as Tocharian A and Tocharian B
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Tocharian1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Tocharian1
Example Sentences
Ancient Eurasian nomads that originally settled in the Kushan Empire — called the "Tocharians" by Greco Roman authors — may also have spoken the language, which the researchers have proposed to call "Eteo-Tocharian."
Both ideas suggest these people brought Tocharian, an extinct branch of Indo-European languages, to the region.
Linguists have long puzzled over an Indo-European language once spoken in western China called Tocharian.
Tocharian, for instance, is a group of Indo-European languages spoken in northwest China.
Records of 28 different languages have been found there, including Tocharian, unique to the region.
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