Tocharian inscription "This Buddha was painted by the hand of Sanketava"
Native to
Kucha
Region
Tarim Basin
Ethnicity
Tocharians
Extinct
9th century AD
Language family
Indo-European
Tocharian
Kuchean
Early form
Proto-Tocharian
Writing system
Tocharian alphabet
Manichaean script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
txb
Linguist List
xtb Tocharian B
Glottolog
tokh1243
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Kuchean (also known as Tocharian B or West Tocharian) was a Western member of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European languages, extinct from the ninth century. Once spoken in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia, Tocharian B shows an internal chronological development; three linguistic stages have been detected.[1] The oldest stage is attested only in Kucha. There is also the middle ('classicalʼ), and the late stage.[2]
Kuchean (also known as Tocharian B or West Tocharian) was a Western member of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European languages, extinct from the ninth...
Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (/təˈkɛəriən/ or /təˈkɑːriən/), also known as Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean, are an extinct branch...
Basin known as the Tocharians, and Kuchans spoke an Indo-European language known as Kuchean Tocharian. The Tocharians are associated with the earlier Afanasievo...
the east, "but the spoken language is somewhat different" from the Kucheanlanguage, which is also known as Tocharian B and West Tocharian. He also stated...
Greeks), early authors called these languages "Tocharian". This naming has remained, although the names Agnean and Kuchean have been proposed as a replacement...
from Kuchean, though a very long time elapsed between that term's first use and its becoming the standard modern name for India in East Asian languages. Pronounced...
liturgical language by the time of the manuscripts, but it may be that the surviving documents are unrepresentative. Tocharian B (Kuchean or West Tocharian)...
dynasty. Only one phrase in the native language of the Jie is known. The source for this phrase was a Kuchean Buddhist monk and missionary Fotudeng. It...
three closely related languages, called Tocharian A (also East Tocharian, Agnean, or Turfanian), Tocharian B (West Tocharian or Kuchean), and Tocharian C...
manuscripts are in Chinese. Other languages represented are Khotanese, Kuchean, Sanskrit, Sogdian, Tibetan, Old Uyghur language, Prakrit, Hebrew, and Old Turkic...
the surrender of the Kuchan forces following a forty-day siege in Aksu. Kuchean soldiers tried to recapture the kingdom with the assistance of the Western...
master from India. Batuo – First abbot of Shaolin Monastery. Kumārajīva – Kuchean Buddhist monk. Huili – Indian Buddhist monk and founder of the Lingyin...
language, Saka was more distantly related to the Tocharian languages (also known as Agnean-Kuchean) spoken in adjoining areas of the Tarim Basin. It also...
supervisor. Shi Le was also an important proponent of Buddhism, as he gave the Kuchean monk, Fotu Cheng, a high-ranking position within his court. Shi Hu was...
translated by the Kuchean monk and translator Kumarajiva (344–413 CE), himself the son of a Buddhist man from Kashmir and a Kuchean princess, sister of...
era. The Chinese character dominated Turfan in the eyes of the Sogdians. Kuchean speakers made up the original inhabitants before the Chinese and Sogdian...
there, he proceeded to Kucha, where he found documents in the lost language of Kuchean. These documents were later translated by Sylvain Lévi, Pelliot's...
221a:6230. In addition, Susan Whitfield offers a fictionalized account of a Kuchean courtesan's experiences in the 9th century without providing any sources...
Buddhists scriptures into Chinese were either Parthian, Kushan, Sogdian or Kuchean. In the middle of the 2nd century, the Kushan Empire under king Kaniṣka...
include the five-stringed, straight-necked, wuxian pipa (五弦琵琶, also known as Kuchean pipa (龜茲琵琶)), a six-stringed version, as well as the two-stringed hulei...
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