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The Tocharians or Tokharians (US: / t oʊ ˈ k ɛər i ə n ˌ-ˈ k ɑːr-/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, - KAR-; [5] UK: / t ɒ ˈ k ɑːr i ə n / to-KAR-ee-ən) [6] were speakers of the Tocharian languages, a group of Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from the 6th and 7th centuries, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin ...
Most of the texts known from the Tocharians are religious, but one noted text is a fragment of a love poem in Tocharian B (manuscript B-496, found in Kizil): [71] Tocharian B manuscript B-496 Translation
Xu, Wenkan 1995 "The Discovery of the Xinjiang Mummies and Studies of the Origin of the Tocharians" The Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 23, Number 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 1995, pp. 357–369. Xu, Wenkan 1996 "The Tokharians and Buddhism" In: Studies in Central and East Asian Religions 9, pp. 1–17.
Tocharian may refer to: . Tocharians, an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in Central Asia; Tocharian clothing, clothing worn by those people; Tocharian languages, two (or perhaps three) Indo-European languages spoken by those people
Tang dynasty map of its Western territories, showing Tokharistan (吐火罗) in the area of Bactria, at the extreme west of Chinese-controlled territories.. Tokharistan (formed from "Tokhara" and the suffix -stan meaning "place of" in Persian) is an ancient Early Middle Ages name given to the area which was known as Bactria in Ancient Greek sources.
A Tocharian-to-English dictionary with nearly 200 words with accompanying article; Tocharian Online by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum, University of Texas at Austin; Tocharian alphabet at Omniglot.com; Online: "A dictionary of Tocharian B". www.win.tue.nl., also in print: Adams, Douglas Q. (2013). A Dictionary of Tocharian B. Rodopi.
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Proto-Tocharian, also spelled Proto-Tokharian (/ t ə ˈ k ɛər i ə n / or / t ə ˈ k ɑːr i ə n /), is the reconstructed proto-language of the extinct Tocharian branch of the Indo-European languages.