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Tocharian

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Noun

1. tocharian

a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.

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Tocharian

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noun
1. 
a member of an Asian people with a complex material culture, sometimes thought to be of European origin, who lived in the Tarim Basin until overcome by the Uighurs around 800 ad
2. 
the language of this people, known from records in a N Indian script of the 7th and 8th centuries ad. It belongs to the Indo-European family, is regarded as forming an independent branch, and shows closer affinities with the W or European group than with the E or Indo-Iranian group. The language is recorded in two dialects, known as Tocharian A and Tocharian B

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Tocharian

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noun
1. 
a member of a people living in central Asia until about a.d. 1000
2. 
their extinct Indo-European language, comprising an eastern dialect (Tocharian A) and a western dialect (Tocharian B): the earliest record known is from the 7th cent. a.d.
adjective
3. 
of the Tocharians or their language or culture

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Tocharian

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n.
1. A member of a people living in Chinese Turkistan until about the tenth century.
2. Either of the two Indo-European languages of this people, called Tocharian A and Tocharian B, recorded from the seventh to the ninth century.
3. A branch of the Indo-European language family consisting of the two Tocharian languages.

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