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Now extinct branch of Indo-European consisting of the languages Tocharian A and Tocharian B, handed down in a large number of written documents in the North Indian Brahmi script between the fifth and the tenth centuries; the first documents were found in Central Asia (Tarim valley, 1890). Although Tocharian is the easternmost Indo-European language branch, it has characteristics that are otherwise only found in the western branches (
centum vs satem languages).
References
Adams, D.Q. 1988. Tocharian historical phonology and morphology. New Haven, CT.
Krause, W. 1952. Westtocharische Grammatik, vol. 1: Das Verbum. Heidelberg.
——1955. Tocharisch. (Handbuch der Orientalistik I. vol. 4, 3.) Leiden. (Repr. 1971.)
Krause, W. and W.Thomas. 1960–4. Tocharisches Elementarbuch, 2 vols.
Heidelberg.
Pinault, G. 1989. Introduction au tokharien. LALIES 7. 1–224.
Schlerath, B. (ed.) 1994. Tocharisch: Akten der Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Berlin 1990. Reykjavík.
Schulze, W., E.Sieg, and W.Siegling. 1931. Tocharische Grammatik. Göttingen.
Van Windekens, A.J. 1976–82. Le Tokharien confronté avec les autres langues indo-europeénnes, 2 vols. Louvain.
Bibliographies
Schwentner, E. 1959. Tocharische Bibliographie, 1890–1958. Berlin.
Thomas, W. 1985. Die Erforschung des Tocharischen. Stuttgart.
Zimmer, S. 1976. Tocharische Bibliographie, 1959–1975 . Heidelberg.
Journal
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies.
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