Search results
The Tocharian script, [7] also known as Central Asian slanting Gupta script or North Turkestan Brāhmī, [8] is an abugida which uses a system of diacritical marks to associate vowels with consonant symbols. Part of the Brahmic scripts, it is a version of the Indian Brahmi script.
The Tocharians, or Tokharians ( US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -KAR-; [5] UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən ), [6] were speakers of Tocharian languages, Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from around 400 to 1200 AD, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China ). [7] .
People also ask
Where did the Tocharian alphabet come from?
What is a Tocharian language?
What is a Tocharian syllabic alphabet?
Where was Tocharian written?
Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet. Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines. Tocharian is a syllabic alphabet in which each consonant has an inherent vowel /a/. Other vowels are indicated with independent vowel letters or vowel diacritics.
Tocharian languages, small group of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Tarim River Basin (in the centre of the modern Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, China) during the latter half of the 1st millennium ad.
The Tocharian alphabet is a version of Brahmi script used to write the Central Asian Indo-European Tocharian languages, mostly from the 8th century (with a few earlier ones) that were written on palm leaves, wooden tablets and Chinese paper, preserved by the extremely dry climate of the Tarim Basin.
The Name "Tocharian". The name "Tocharian" (German Tocharisch) was proposed first by F. W. K. Müller in 1907, and a year later by the renowned pair of Tocharianists Sieg and Siegling. This name is now thought to be a misnomer, but nevertheless remains due to sheer inertia and the lack of a definitive replacement.
