tocharian in English
adjective
1
relating to the Tocharian or their language.
This periphery was ancestral to the historical Tocharian languages.
noun
1
a member of a central Asian people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in the 1st millennium ad.
The wonderful second part of the book opens in the Tarim Basin circa 750 A.D. in a settlement of Tocharians .
2
either of two extinct languages ( Tocharian A and Tocharian B ) spoken by the Tocharian people, the most easterly of known ancient Indo-European languages, surviving in a few documents and inscriptions and showing affinities to Celtic and Italic languages.
In a remote part of Western China archaeologists have found not only evidence of an extinct Indo-European language, Tocharian , but the mummified remains, up to 4,000 years old, of the Indo-Europeans themselves.
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1. A body of loanwords and names found in Prakrit documents have been dubbed Tocharian C (Kroränian).