Tocharian leids
Appearance
Tocharian | |
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Tocharian B manuscript, c. 7t century AD | |
Native tae | Agni, Kucha, Turfan an Krorän |
Region | Tarim Basin o Cheenae, an Central Asie |
Ethnicity | Tocharians |
Extinct | 9t century AD |
Indo-European
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Dialects |
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Brahmi script (Tocharian alphabet) Manichaean script[2][3] | |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:xto – Tocharian Atxb – Tocharian B |
xto Tocharian A | |
txb Tocharian B | |
Glottolog | tokh1241 [4] |
Tocharian, an aa spelled Tokharian (/təˈkɛəriən/ or /təˈkɑːriən/), is an extinct branch o the Indo-European leid faimily, kent frae manuscripts datin frae the 6t tae the 8t century AD foond in oasis ceeties on the northren edge o the Tarim Basin (nou pairt o Xinjiang in northwast Cheenae).
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Mallory, J.P. "Bronze Age languages of the Tarim Basin" (PDF). Expedition. 52 (3): 44–53. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 9 Januar 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ↑ Krause, Todd B.; Slocum, Jonathan. "Tocharian Online: Series Introduction". University of Texas at Austin. Archived frae the original on 29 Juin 2015. Retrieved 27 Mey 2015.
- ↑ Mallory, J.P.; Adams, Douglas Q., eds. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 509. ISBN 978-1-884964-98-5.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tokharian". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.