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The Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -KAR-; [3] UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən), [4] also known as the Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean languages, are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, the ...
The Tocharians or Tokharians (US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -KAR-; [5] UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən) [6] were speakers of the Tocharian languages, Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from around AD 400 to 1200, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China). [7] .
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.
Apr 2, 2019 · For over a hundred years now linguists have known of a small Indo-European family comprised of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B, in the Tarim Basin of eastern Central Asia (Chinese Xinjiang).
The Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, - KAR-; UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən), also known as the Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean languages, are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, the Tocharians.
Tocharian denotes two closely related languages of the Indo-European family, denoted simply Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Though quite similar, Tocharian A and B are now considered by most scholars to be two distinct languages, and not merely two dialects of one common language.
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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.
