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Definition of Tocharian in English: Tochariannoun təˈkɑːrɪəntəˈkɛːrɪəntōˈke(ə)rēən 1A member of a central Asian people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in the 1st millennium AD. 吐火罗人（第一个千年时居住于塔里木盆地的中亚人的一支） Example sentencesExamples - It appears possible that eventually the Tocharians may be classified with the eastern Scythians.
- The Tocharians originally came from the Roman Empire and had become Buddhists in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- The Soghdians, Tocharians and Khorezmians at the same time began to use to Turkish language.
- Their being Tocharians does put them right into the Indo-European matrix alongside the Greeks, Norse, and others.
- The wonderful second part of the book opens in the Tarim Basin circa 750 A.D. in a settlement of Tocharians.
2mass noun Either of two extinct languages (Tocharian A and Tocharian B) spoken by the Tocharians, the most easterly of known ancient Indo-European languages, surviving in a few documents and inscriptions and showing curious affinities to Celtic and Italic languages. 吐火罗语（吐火罗人使用的语言，分A种语和B种语，均已消亡，是已知古代印欧语系中最东部的语言，只存在于少数文献和碑文中，与凯尔特语和意大利语有令人费解的相似） Example sentencesExamples - Repeating the exercise, we analyze the related languages - Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of Latin, Celtic, Greek, Baltic, Slavic, Albanian, Armenian, Anatolian, Hittite, Indo-Iranian, and Tocharian.
- 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.
- I think this expression could be an example of Tocharian B that survived in isolation for 100 years or more.
- Some sources therefore refer to Tocharian A as East Tocharian or Turfanian, since Turfan is at the easternmost extent of the Tocharian sites.
- Don Ringe, author of On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian, is professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
adjective təˈkɑːrɪəntəˈkɛːrɪəntōˈke(ə)rēən Relating to the Tocharians or their languages. （与）吐火罗人（有关）的；（与）吐火罗语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - This periphery was ancestral to the historical Tocharian languages.
- The fact that the real history of the ‘procurement’ of Tocharian documents by Aurel Stein from Central Asia forms an important clue in the detective story was a nice touch.
- They even impinged on areas of Poland and the Ukraine and, if the amazing recent discoveries of mummies in China's province of Xinjiang are linked with the Tocharian texts, they even moved as far east as the area north of Tibet.
OriginFrom French tocharien, via Latin from Greek Tokharoi, the name of a Scythian tribe (almost certainly unrelated to the Tocharians). Definition of Tocharian in US English: Tochariannountōˈke(ə)rēən 1A member of a central Asian people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in the 1st millennium AD. 吐火罗人（第一个千年时居住于塔里木盆地的中亚人的一支） Example sentencesExamples - The Tocharians originally came from the Roman Empire and had become Buddhists in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- The Soghdians, Tocharians and Khorezmians at the same time began to use to Turkish language.
- It appears possible that eventually the Tocharians may be classified with the eastern Scythians.
- The wonderful second part of the book opens in the Tarim Basin circa 750 A.D. in a settlement of Tocharians.
- Their being Tocharians does put them right into the Indo-European matrix alongside the Greeks, Norse, and others.
2Either 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. 吐火罗语（吐火罗人使用的语言，分A种语和B种语，均已消亡，是已知古代印欧语系中最东部的语言，只存在于少数文献和碑文中，与凯尔特语和意大利语有令人费解的相似） Example sentencesExamples - Don Ringe, author of On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian, is professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
- I think this expression could be an example of Tocharian B that survived in isolation for 100 years or more.
- Some sources therefore refer to Tocharian A as East Tocharian or Turfanian, since Turfan is at the easternmost extent of the Tocharian sites.
- 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.
- Repeating the exercise, we analyze the related languages - Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of Latin, Celtic, Greek, Baltic, Slavic, Albanian, Armenian, Anatolian, Hittite, Indo-Iranian, and Tocharian.
adjectivetōˈke(ə)rēən Relating to the Tocharian or their language. （与）吐火罗人（有关）的；（与）吐火罗语（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples - This periphery was ancestral to the historical Tocharian languages.
- They even impinged on areas of Poland and the Ukraine and, if the amazing recent discoveries of mummies in China's province of Xinjiang are linked with the Tocharian texts, they even moved as far east as the area north of Tibet.
- The fact that the real history of the ‘procurement’ of Tocharian documents by Aurel Stein from Central Asia forms an important clue in the detective story was a nice touch.
OriginFrom French tocharien, via Latin from Greek Tokharoi, the name of a Scythian tribe (almost certainly unrelated to the Tocharians). |