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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

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Tocharians

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The Tocharians, or Tokharians (US: /toʊˈkɛəriən/ or /toʊˈkɑːriən/; UK: /tɒˈkɑːriən/), were speakers of Tocharian languages, Indo-European languages known...

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Tocharian languages

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The Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (/təˈkɛəriən/ or /təˈkɑːriən/), also known as the Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean languages...

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Tocharian

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Look up Tocharian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tocharian may refer to: Tocharians, an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in Central Asia...

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Tocharian script

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The Tocharian script, also known as Central Asian slanting Gupta script or North Turkestan Brāhmī, is an abugida which uses a system of diacritical marks...

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Tocharian clothing

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Tocharian clothing refers to clothing worn by the Tocharians. A series of murals from Kizil, Kizilgaha and Kumtura caves depicting Kuchean royalties, knights...

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Tarim mummies

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individuals were long suspected to have been "Proto-Tocharian-speaking pastoralists", ancestors of the Tocharians, but this has now been largely discredited by...

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Yuezhi

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"The separate origins of the Tocharians and the Yuezhi". Tocharian Texts in Context: International Conference on Tocharian Manuscripts and Silk Road Culture...

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Kuchean language

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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...

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Iranian toman

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languages is certainly a borrowing from Tocharian (Clauson 1972). In Tocharian A, there is 'tman,' in Tocharian B 'tmane', 'tumane'. {{cite journal}}:...

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Centum and satem languages

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labiovelars remained distinct in Proto-Tocharian, which places Tocharian in the centum group (assuming that Proto-Tocharian lost palatovelars while labiovelars...

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Turkey

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long-term contact with neighboring peoples such as Iranic, Mongolic, Tocharian, Uralic, and Yeniseian peoples. During the 9th and 10th centuries CE,...

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Gutian language

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the different endings of the king names resembled case endings in the Tocharian languages, a branch of Indo-European known from texts found in the Tarim...

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Kushan Empire

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the Yuezhi confederation, an Indo-European nomadic people of possible Tocharian origin, who migrated from northwestern China (Xinjiang and Gansu) and...

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Xinjiang

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Indo-European Tocharians and Iranian Sakas who practiced Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. The Turfan and Tarim Basins were inhabited by speakers of Tocharian languages...

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Uyghurs

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Uyghurs who moved to the Tarim Basin mixed with the local Tocharians, and converted to the Tocharian religion, and adopted their culture of oasis agriculture...

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Mongolia

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mongoloid in the east of what is now Mongolia, and as europoid in the west. Tocharians (Yuezhi) and Scythians inhabited western Mongolia during the Bronze Age...

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Ancient Greece

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Nilotic Peoples List Proto-Indo-Europeans Afanasievo Indo-Iranians Scythia Tocharians Yuezhi Donghu Wusun Xiongnu Huns Hunas Xionites Hephthalites Pannonian...

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Turkic peoples

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long-term contact with neighboring peoples such as Iranic, Mongolic, Tocharian, Uralic and Yeniseian peoples, and others. Many vastly differing ethnic...

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Missionary

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Albert von Le Coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed, red-haired monk was a Tocharian, modern scholarship has identified similar Caucasian figures of the same...

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Bactria

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not be confused with the Tocharian people who lived in the Tarim Basin between the 3rd and 9th centuries AD, or the Tocharian languages that form another...

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Ashina tribe

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term Ashina ultimately descends from an Indo-European source, possibly Tocharian or from one of the many Eastern Iranian tribal groups, such as the Saka...

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Turkic settlement of the Tarim Basin

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area was first populated by Indo-European Tocharian and Saka peoples, who practiced Buddhism. The Tocharian and Saka peoples came under Chinese rule in...

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