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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.
With these Indic languages came scripts, including the Brahmi script (later adapted to write Tocharian) and the Kharosthi script. [89] From the 3rd century, Kucha became a center of Buddhist studies. Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese by Kuchean monks, the most famous of whom was Kumārajīva (344–412/5).
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; Tocharian script, the script used to write the Tocharian languages
Tocharian languages A (blue), B (red) and C (green) in the Tarim Basin. [42] Tarim oasis towns are given as listed in the Book of Han (c. 2nd century BC), with the areas of the squares proportional to population. [43] Tocharian A and B are significantly different, to the point of being mutually unintelligible. A common Proto-Tocharian language ...
The centum change could have occurred independently in multiple centum subgroups (at the very least, Tocharian, Anatolian and Western IE), as it was a phonologically natural change, given the possible interpretation of the "palatovelar" series as plain-velar and the "plain velar" series as back-velar or uvular (see above). Given the minimal ...
The writing system is from the ancient Kushan empire, German researchers said in a new study.
Some of the biggest issues: Tocharian collapsed voiceless, voiced, and voices aspirates into voiceless stops; [50] Armenian doesn't have aspirated voiceless stops (but rather ejective); [51] the anaptyctic vowels of Germanic, [52] Balto-Slavic, [53] and Italic [54] that developed from syllabic resonants are all different (but are shown as being ...
Tocharian alphabet; Modern studies are developing a Tocharian dictionary. Mark Dickens, 'Everything you always wanted to know about Tocharian'. Archived 2003-10-11 at the Wayback Machine; A dictionary of Tocharian B by Douglas Q. Adams (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 10), xxxiv, 830 pp., Rodopi: Amsterdam – Atlanta, 1999. Zhivko Voynikov ...