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Meaning of "tocharian"

tocharian (adjective) - Refers to the extinct Tocharian language, which was once spoken in the Tarim Basin of present-day Xinjiang, China. Tocharian is known for its historical significance as an Indo-European language
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  • An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, consisting of two languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B, written in an abugida derived from Brahmi.
  • Any member of a people who inhabited the Tarim Basin and spoke Tocharian.
  • Of or pertaining to Tocharian or the Tocharians.

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Tocharian has two known forms.
His research focus was the Tocharian language.
The Tocharian languages are extinct today.
It also shared areal features with Tocharian.
It is also seen in Tocharian which probably branched off next.
The theory is supported by the discovery of translations of Tocharian texts into Uyghur.
Tocharian was therefore probably a major language in the Meroitic Sudan.
Some of these proposed substratum words have now also been found in Tocharian.
The Tocharian cities never recovered from the Tang conquest.
Wooden plate with inscriptions in Tocharian.
The Tocharian language was written in Kharosthi script.
These findings are associated with the ancient Tocharians and Tocharian languages.
The Tocharian languages were once spoken in the Tarim Basin.
He was a professor of Hittite and Tocharian at the University of Ghent.
The later Yuezhi in the Gansu corridor may have also been Tocharian.

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The Tocharian languages are believed to have become extinct during the 9th century.
Many Prakrit terms were borrowed from Khotanese into the Tocharian languages.
BCE enough to isolate the Tocharian languages from Indo-Iranian linguistic innovations like satemization.
The Uyghur Empire was originally located in Mongolia and conquered the Tocharian tribes in Xinjiang.
Most Tocharian inscriptions are from Buddhist monastical texts, suggesting that Tocharians largely embraced this religion.
A body of loanwords and names found in Prakrit documents have been dubbed Tocharian C Kroränian.
In India, the Gymnosophists used Tocharian and the Kharosthi script to write their scriptures.
Tocharian verbs are conjugated in the following categories, Mood, indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative.
Historical phonology of the Tocharian languages ”.
The team investigated a 1935 hypothesis that the influencing local language was a form of Tocharian.
Only Tocharian B preserves the following Proto-Tocharian features: stress distinctions, final vowels, diphthongs, and o vs. e distinction.
Two of the subfamilies have disappeared, Anatolian ( includes the language of the Hittites ) and Tocharian.
It is also found in Tocharian B, an Indo-European language.
The satem languages belong to the " eastern " sub-families, especially Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic but not Tocharian.
A possible Tocharian monk ( left ) with an East Asian buddhist monk ( right ).
From around 1800 BC until the 9th century the lake supported a thriving Tocharian culture.

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