In the language known as Tocharian A, śreŕ, “the stars,” were perceived collectively. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
Later dubbed Tocharian A, the language was deciphered by two linguists at Germany's Gottingen University, Emil Siel and Wilhem Siegling. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
We know of two (or perhaps three) different languages belonging to this branch, usually referred to as Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Anatolian. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Local tongues, such as Tocharian and Khotanese, were still strictly oral at that time. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 8 The Religious Conversions of the Eastern Turks] Reference
And what of Tocharian which is surely one of the two earliest branches to separate from the common PIE community?. From Wordnik.com. [A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan] Reference
Which is one of the things I love about Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference
I am not aware of any words that are 'satemic' in Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [Diachrony of PIE] Reference
Yes, you're correct: Tocharian is not a Satem language per se. From Wordnik.com. [Diachrony of PIE] Reference
This form is witnessed in Celtic, Anatolian and Tocharian branches. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
UK Commentators: The Tocharian Mummies skip to main | skip to sidebar. From Wordnik.com. [The Tocharian Mummies] Reference
Indo-European Tocharian languages documented later in the Tarim Basin. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Tracking the Tarim Mummies] Reference
D. in 1941, he also mastered Tocharian and a handful of other obscure languages. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Word vanishes magically in all IE languages east of the Crimea, even in Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [Missing honey] Reference
As successors to the Ruanruan, the Eastern Turks ruled the Tocharian oasis of Turfan. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 8 The Religious Conversions of the Eastern Turks] Reference
Makes you wish you picked up Tocharian or Lycian as your obscure language of choice :P. From Wordnik.com. [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference
I'll probably write a little article about the Tocharian vowel system on my blog soon. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference
This would support the thesis that the participle was lost in Anatolian and Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model] Reference
The s-e suffix performs no special function in Tocharian; it's simply a present suffix. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending] Reference
Tocharian B didn't have any spaces either, that writing is considerably more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptology and the modern world without time] Reference
Tocharian B uses them a lot I bet you can tell which class I followed last year by now :P. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending] Reference
It has shown up in English but also in Albanian, Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, and Tocharian B. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
Hahaha, yes, and curiously also Tocharian had its own seperate palatalization as it moved eastwards. From Wordnik.com. [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference
Glen: Hahaha, yes, and curiously also Tocharian had its own seperate palatalization as it moved eastwards. From Wordnik.com. [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference
Only a handful of people in the world can read Tocharian; mastering the language is not a path to notoriety. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
"As a side note have you ever heard of the idea that 蜜 mì 'honey' might be a loan from Tocharian mit 'honey'?". From Wordnik.com. [My sweet honey bee] Reference
There you can only rely on the phonotactics of Tocharian which are incredibly free or knowledge of the vocabulary. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptology and the modern world without time] Reference
Only once Anatolian and Tocharian parted ways would the emerging Core IE dialects create this new participial form. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
They adopted a blend of the Iranian-influenced Khotanese and Tocharian forms of Buddhism and introduced it to Mongolia. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 1 The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia and Adjacent Regions before the Advent of the Arabs] Reference
Along the northern rim of the desert, the Tocharian people brought Buddhism to Kucha and Turfan in the second century CE. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in East Turkistan] Reference
Among the extinct descendants of Indo-European are two well-attested main branches, Anatolian including Hittite and Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [The English Is Coming!] Reference
I had come to this model in order to explain how Anatolian-Tocharian dialects relate to the other dialects which I call Core IE. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
During the second century CE, Buddhism reached the northern rim of the Tarim Basin as well, passing from Bactria to the Tocharian people of Kucha and Turfan. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 1 The Spread of Buddhism in Central Asia and Adjacent Regions before the Advent of the Arabs] Reference
The square stone was undoubtedly referring to the platform upon which was erected a stupa reliquary monument, commonly found in the center of Bactrian and Tocharian temples. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 3 The First Encounter of the Muslims and Buddhist Asia] Reference
These city-states along or adjacent to the northern rim of the Tarim Basin with Tocharian culture and large Sogdian and Han Chinese minorities were their natural destination. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs] Reference
The First Written Translations of Buddhist Texts into Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 8 The Religious Conversions of the Eastern Turks] Reference
The former branch is now extinct but it is relatively well known through the fragments of Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian Volume 1: From Proto-Indo - European to Proto-Tocharian. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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