Tocharian A (Agnean or East Tocharian) was found in the northeastern oases known to the Tocharians as Ārśi, later Agni (i.e. Chinese Yanqi; modern Karasahr) and Turpan (including Khocho or Qočo; …

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 …

Tocharian is an extinct Indo-European language spoken in what is now western China until about the 8th century AD.

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 …

Tocharian is important because it shares certain important isoglosses with the Anatolian (Hittite) branch and the Italic branch. Now, the Tocharian branch is found at the north- eastern corner of the Indo …

Tocharian A (Turfanian, Agnean, or East Tocharian; natively ārśi) of Qarašähär (ancient Agni, Chinese Yanqi and Sanskrit Agni) and Turpan (ancient Turfan and Xočo), and Tocharian B (Kuchean or West …

Apr 6, 2009 · Besides the religious Tocharian texts, the texts include monastery correspondence and accounts, commercial documents, caravan permits, medical and magical texts, and a love poem.

Jul 27, 2015 · Proto-Tocharian is the common ancestor of Tocharian A and B that is not attested directly but has to be reconstructed through the comparison of the daughter languages.

Towards the end of the first millennium, Tocharian became extinct: it is now only known from documents that could be preserved over a period of more than 1000 years thanks to the arid climate of the …

The branch consists of the two languages Tocharian A and Tocharian B, which were mutually unintelligible. A third one, Tocharian C, is attested in a few loanwords in Gāndhārī (see sounds).