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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.
The Tocharian script is very similar to the Indian Brahmi script from the Kushan period, with only slight variations in calligraphy. Tocharian language inscription: Se pañäkte saṅketavattse ṣarsa papaiykau "This Buddha was painted by the hand of Sanketava", [ 30 ] [ 31 ] on a painting carbon dated to 245-340 AD.
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 ...
Brahmic scripts descended from the Brahmi script. Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts. Northern Brahmi gave rise to the Gupta script during the Gupta period, which in turn diversified into a number of cursives during the medieval period.
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
The writing system is from the ancient Kushan empire, German researchers said in a new study.
Phonetically, Proto-Tocharian is a centum Indo-European language, meaning that it merges the palatovelar consonants (*ḱ, *ǵ, *ǵʰ) of Proto Indo-European with the plain velars (*k, *g, *gʰ) rather than palatalizing them to affricates or sibilants.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Group of Eastern Iranic languages For other uses, see Scythian (disambiguation). It has been suggested that this article be split into a new article titled Pontic Scythian language. (discuss) (November 2024) Scythian Geographic distribution Central Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe ...