Tocharians - Wikipedia Tocharian B has a noun swāñco derived from the name of the Proto-Indo-European sun goddess, while Tocharian A has koṃ, a loanword etymologically connected to the Turkic sun goddess Gun Ana Besides this, they might have also worshipped a lunar deity ( meñ- ) and an earth one ( keṃ- )
Introduction to Tocharian - University of Texas at Austin 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 be two distinct languages, and not merely two dialects of one common language
Tocharian languages | Ancient Indo-European Dialects - Britannica 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 latter half of the 1st millennium ad
Indo-European Daughter Languages: Tocharian - The History Files It consists of two dead languages, Tocharian A (or Agnean) and Tocharian B (or Kuchanian) These were spoken in the first millennium AD in East Turkestan, in several cases in which inscriptions and texts written in these languages were found
Tocharian - uni-goettingen. de Proto-Tocharian, Common Tocharian, and Tocharian – on the value of linguistic connections in a reconstructed language In Jones-Bley, Karlene (ed ), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference
The Tocharians: Their Language and Literature They referred to this language as Tocharian, based on a colophon to the Old Uyghur translation of the Tocharian Maitreyasamitinataka, in which the original language was referred to as the speech of the “twγry ” The name also recalled the “Tocharians” (Τόχαροι) mentioned in ancient Greek sources
Tocharian Proto-Indo-European Language and Society • Tocharian is actually two languages: Tocharian A (north-east area) and Tocharian B (mostly south-west area) • Tocharian texts are dated to between 500 and 840 CE
TOCHARIAN LANGUAGE - Encyclopaedia Iranica TOCHARIAN LANGUAGE Tocharian is the conventional name for two closely related Indo-European languages that were spoken in northwest China, in the north of the Tarim Basin in present-day Xīnjiāng
Tocharian languages - Wikipedia Tocharian A is found only in the eastern part of the Tocharian-speaking area, and all extant texts are of a religious nature Tocharian B, however, is found throughout the range and in both religious and secular texts