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A branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.
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tocharian
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Tocharian may refer to: Tocharians , an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in Central Asia Tocharian languages , two (or perhaps three) Indo-European languages spoken by those people Tocharian alphabet , the script used to write the Tocharian ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to an extinct people and Indo-European language of Chinese Turkestan, 1927, from French tocharien , from Greek Tokharoi (Strabo), name of an Asiatic people who lived in the Oxus valley in ancient times. Earlier Tocharish (1910), from German ...
Usage examples of tocharian.
Chinese script, and a single headstone written in the rarely-found Tocharian language, an Indo-European tongue known to have once been spoken in what is now Western China.
The number of Chinese, Tibetan, Persian, Tartar and Tocharian soldiers found dead and buried outside the walls with leg injuries bore witness to the ballistae having been highly effective in their heyday.
The Tocharian speakers were the easternmost of the Indo-European peoples, and their tongue (rather oddly) shows a closer kinship to the western Indo-European languages (Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Italic) than it does to the Indo-Iranian group.