mistaken, "Tocharian" remains the usual term for these languages. The discovered manuscripts record two closely related languages, called Tocharian A (also...
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Tocharians or Tokharians (US: /toʊˈkɛəriənˌ -ˈkɑːr-/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -KAR-; UK: /tɒˈkɑːriən/ to-KAR-ee-ən) were speakers of the Tocharian languages,...
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record two closely related languages, called Tocharian A (also East Tocharian, Agnean or Turfanian) and Tocharian B (West Tocharian or Kuchean). The subject...
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called these languages "Tocharian". This naming has remained, although the names Agnean and Kuchean have been proposed as a replacement. Tocharian A and B...
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in Central Asia Tocharian clothing, clothing worn by those people Tocharian languages, two (or perhaps three) Indo-European languages spoken by those...
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Kuchean (also known as Tocharian B or West Tocharian) was a Western member of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European languages, extinct from the ninth century...
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Tarim mummies (redirect from Tocharian mummies)
individuals were long suspected to have been "Proto-Tocharian-speaking pastoralists", ancestors of the Tocharians, but this has now been largely discredited by...
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the world's population. The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition) languages spoken by about 3.5 billion people or more...
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documents. Many Prakrit terms were borrowed from Khotanese into the Tocharian languages. The two known dialects of Saka are associated with a movement of...
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the Tarim "Tocharian" languages were "centum" languages within the Indo-European family, whereas Bactrian was an Iranian, thus "satem" language. Bactrian...
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Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) is a scholarly journal on Tocharian in the Indo-European context, established in 1987 by the Icelandic linguist...
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Kucha (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
Indo-Iranian languages, the Tocharian languages (as they became known by modern scholars) belong to the centum group of Indo-European languages, which are otherwise...
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spoken Tocharian B because the two languages overlapped. There is the possibility that Tocharian B replaced Tocharian A. Agneans / Arseans (Ārśiññe) / Aspacares...
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Maitreyasamitināṭaka (category Tocharian languages)
Maitreyasamitināṭaka is a Buddhist drama in the language known as Tocharian A. It dates to the eighth century and survives only in fragments. Maitrisimit...
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Indo-Hittite (redirect from Indo-Hittite languages)
the stem, link the Anatolian languages closer to the southeastern languages such as Greek and Armenian and to Tocharian. Features such as the lack of...
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Tocharian B kante. In the Germanic languages, the /k/ developed regularly by Grimm's law to become /h/, as in Old English hund(red). Centum languages...
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whereas in the Slavic languages it is done with a suffix -wo-, as in the Indo-Iranian languages and Tocharian languages. In Hittite language as well as the Proto-Slavic...
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Later, the discovery of the Anatolian and Tocharian languages added to the corpus of descendant languages. A subtle new principle won wide acceptance:...
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Douglas Q. Adams (category Linguists of Tocharian languages)
Tocharian and a contributor on this subject to the Encyclopædia Britannica. He has also co-authored two works on Indo-European culture and languages with...
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different endings of the king names resembled case endings in the Tocharian languages, a branch of Indo-European known from texts found in the Tarim Basin...
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Italo-Celtic (redirect from Italo-Celtic languages)
several distinctive features with the Hittite language (an Anatolian language) and the Tocharian languages, and those features are certainly archaisms....
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ancient Osco-Umbrian languages, Faliscan, as well as Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages, such as Italian and French. Tocharian, with proposed...
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Yuezhi (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
the Tarim Basin, such as the Tarim mummies and texts recording the Tocharian languages, there is no evidence for any such link. Three pre-Han texts mention...
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closely related languages, called Tocharian A (also East Tocharian, Agnean, or Turfanian), Tocharian B (West Tocharian or Kuchean), and Tocharian C (Kroränian...
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Indo-European migrations (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the discovery of Anatolian and Tocharian languages and the acceptance of the laryngeal theory. The Anatolian languages have also spurred a major re-evaluation...
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found in the Turpan region in the Iranian languages aforementioned, Old Uyghur, and the Tocharian languages. In the 19th century, German expeditions discovered...
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Old Chinese (redirect from Old Chinese language)
Indo-European Tocharian languages, the source of *mjit (蜜 mì) 'honey', from proto-Tocharian *ḿət(ə) (where *ḿ is palatalized; cf. Tocharian B mit), cognate...
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Karasahr (category Tocharians)
قاراشەھەر, romanized: Qarasheher), which was originally known in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi), Qarašähär, or Agni or the Chinese derivative...
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Ji Xianlin (category Linguists of Tocharian languages)
Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works...
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The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia. The best known Anatolian language is Hittite, which...
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