Crossword clues for tocharian
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 tocharisch. The identification of this culture with the people named by Strabo was suggested in 1907 by F.W.K. Müller and "is obviously erroneous" (Klein).
Wikipedia
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 languages
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.