Tocharian languages
E3582
The Tocharian languages were an extinct branch of the Indo-European family once spoken in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia, known from early medieval manuscripts and notable for their archaic linguistic features.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tocharian B | 6 |
| Tocharian languages canonical | 6 |
| Tocharian A | 4 |
| Tocharian | 3 |
| Arśi-Kuči languages | 1 |
| Proto-Tocharian | 1 |
| Tocharian peoples | 1 |
| Tokharian languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T28253 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Tocharian languages Context triple: [Indo-European language family, hasSubfamily, Tocharian languages]
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A.
Koine Greek
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B.
Vietnamese alphabet
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C.
Old Italic script
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D.
Gori
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E.
Kanji
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Tocharian languages Target entity description: The Tocharian languages were an extinct branch of the Indo-European family once spoken in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia, known from early medieval manuscripts and notable for their archaic linguistic features.
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A.
Yuman language family
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B.
Mountain Jews
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C.
Judeo-Arabic
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D.
Koine Greek
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E.
Inupiaq
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- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Indo-European languages
ⓘ
extinct language family ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Tocharian languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Arśi-Kuči languages
Tocharian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Tokharian languages
|
| arealContactWith |
Gandhari Prakrit
ⓘ
Middle Iranian languages ⓘ Southwestern Turkic ⓘ
surface form:
Old Turkic
|
| attestedIn |
Buddhist texts
ⓘ
commercial documents ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ monastic documents ⓘ |
| branchOf | Indo-European language family ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Albert von Le Coq
ⓘ
Aurel Stein ⓘ |
| extinctionPeriod | by the end of the first millennium CE ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Tarim Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Karashahr region
Tarim Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Kucha region
Tarim Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Turfan region
|
| hasPart |
Tocharian languages
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tocharian A
Tocharian languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tocharian B
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| historicalRegion | Xinjiang ⓘ |
| identifiedAsIndoEuropeanBy |
Emil Sieg
ⓘ
Wilhelm Siegling ⓘ |
| ISO639-5Code | txh ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Indo-European language family ⓘ |
| lexicalBorrowingFrom |
Iranian languages
ⓘ
Middle Indic languages ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
agglutinative case system
ⓘ
archaic Indo-European morphology ⓘ centum Indo-European phonology ⓘ innovative verbal system ⓘ lack of grammatical gender in nouns ⓘ use of clitic pronouns ⓘ |
| periodOfUse | 1st millennium CE ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Buddhism ⓘ |
| researchField |
Indo-European studies
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| scriptUsed |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
Brahmi script ⓘ
surface form:
Central Asian Brahmi
|
| spokenIn |
Central Asia
ⓘ
Tarim Basin ⓘ oases of the northern Tarim Basin ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| textualGenre |
Buddhist canonical translations
ⓘ
administrative records ⓘ medical texts ⓘ secular documents ⓘ |
| timeOfAttestation |
6th century CE
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7th century CE ⓘ 8th century CE ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Tocharian languages Description of subject: The Tocharian languages were an extinct branch of the Indo-European family once spoken in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia, known from early medieval manuscripts and notable for their archaic linguistic features.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.