See Also: Tocharian languages(encyclopedia)
Tocharian(dictionary)
Kru languages(encyclopedia)
Kwa languages(encyclopedia)
Tai languages(encyclopedia)
Gur languages(encyclopedia)
Mon-Khmer languages(encyclopedia)
Maya languages(encyclopedia)
Mongolian languages(encyclopedia)
Uralic languages(encyclopedia)

Tocharian languages (sh)




or Tokharian languages

Two extinct Indo-European languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B, formerly spoken in the Tarim River Basin in China.

Documents date back to AD 500-700. Tocharian literature, written in a northern Indian syllabary derived from Brahmi (see Indic writing systems), was preserved in Buddhist monasteries. Spoken at the eastern frontier of the Indo-European world, Tocharian shows the influence of Indo-Aryan and Iranian languages but seems closer to western Indo-European languages in vocabulary and grammar.