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PRONUNCIATION OF TOKHARIAN

Tokharian  [tɒˈkɑːrɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOKHARIAN

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determiner
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Tokharian is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TOKHARIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tokharian

Tocharian languages

Tocharian or Tokharian is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, formerly spoken by Tocharian peoples in oases on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin. Documents dating from the 6th to the 8th century AD record two closely related languages, called Tocharian A and Tocharian B. The subject matter of the texts suggests that Tocharian A was more archaic and used as a Buddhist liturgical language, while Tocharian B was more actively spoken in the entire area from Turfan in the east to Tumshuq in the west. A body of loanwords and names found in Prakrit documents have been dubbed Tocharian C. These languages became extinct after Turkic Uyghur tribes expanded into the Tarim Basin in the 9th century AD. The term "Tocharian" is sometimes referred to as a misnomer for Old Turkic twγry/twghry, read as toxrï.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOKHARIAN


chorion
ˈkɔːrɪən
Dorian
ˈdɔːrɪən
Ecuadorean
ˌɛkwəˈdɔːrɪən
Ecuadorian
ˌekwəˈdɔːrɪən
Gregorian
ɡrɪˈɡɔːrɪən
historian
hɪˈstɔːrɪən
Hyperborean
ˌhaɪpəˈbɔːrɪən
Ivorian
aɪˈvɔːrɪən
morion
ˈmɔːrɪən
Nestorian
nɛsˈtɔːrɪən
praetorian
priːˈtɔːrɪən
pretorian
priːˈtɔːrɪən
salutatorian
səˌluːtəˈtɔːrɪən
Salvadorean
ˌsælvəˈdɔːrɪən
saurian
ˈsɔːrɪən
Singaporean
ˌsɪŋəˈpɔːrɪən
stentorian
stɛnˈtɔːrɪən
Tocharian
tɒˈkɑːrɪən
valedictorian
ˌvælɪdɪkˈtɔːrɪən
Victorian
vɪkˈtɔːrɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOKHARIAN

Tokelau Islands
token
token economy
token money
token payment
token strike
token vote
tokenism
tokenistic
toker
tokology
tokoloshe
tokoloshi
tokonoma
tokophobia
tokotoko
toktokkie
Tokugawa Iyeyasu
Tokyo
Tokyo Bay

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOKHARIAN

agrarian
antiquarian
assistant librarian
authoritarian
barbarian
Bavarian
Brian
Bulgarian
centenarian
humanitarian
Hungarian
libertarian
librarian
Marian
ovarian
sectarian
totalitarian
unitarian
utilitarian
vegetarian
veterinarian

Synonyms and antonyms of Tokharian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Tokharian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOKHARIAN

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The translations of Tokharian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Tokharian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Tokharian
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Tokharian
570 millions of speakers

English

Tokharian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Tokharian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Tokharian
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тохарских
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tocariano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Tokharian
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tokharienne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tokharian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tocharisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Tokharian
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Tokharian
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tokharian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Tokharian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Tokharian A,
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टोकिरीयन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tokharian
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Tokharian
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Tokharian
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тохарських
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Tokharian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Tokharian
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Tokharian
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Tokharian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Tokharian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Tokharian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOKHARIAN»

The term «Tokharian» is used very little and occupies the 157.306 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOKHARIAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Tokharian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOKHARIAN»

Discover the use of Tokharian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Tokharian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tokharian Tales
What's a hovercipher? You might as well ask what's existential anarchism - open this book and find out!
Jason Murk, 2007
2
Acta Iranica:
Two words have been regarded as names of the old language of Qarasahr ("I A"), which is almost universally called "Tokharian" now. One, arii, found in documents written in that language, has been claimed as the indigenous name, used by ...
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, 1978
3
Tokharian Buddhism in Kucha: Buddhism of Indo-European ...
There is a colophon which states this clearly and many Sanskrit loan words in Tokharian suggest the same. Tokharian monks probably studied and read Sanskrit texts directly, hence Tokharian B texts were translated from Indian languages in ...
Mariko Namba Walter, 1998
4
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and ...
Tokharian. Elements. in. the. Kharosthi. Documents. from. Chinese. Turkestan. By T. BURROW, M.A., M.R.A.8. Christ's College, Cambridge rriHE language of the Kharosthi documents recovered from Chinese Turkestan by Sir Aurel Stein is in ...
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1834
5
The Mummies of Ürümchi
It is a diagram showing how certain languages are related to one another. We can demonstrate the relatedness of some but not all Opposite page: Map of Tokharian areas. Texts in Tokharian have been found principally at sites within the ...
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, 2000
6
Return To The Silk Routes
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Juntunen,, 2013
7
Society and history: essays in honor of Karl August Wittfogel
Powerful support for the opinion expressed in the preceding paragraph is supplied by the nomenclature attached to the "speakers of the Tokharian languages", the groups settled at the foot of the T'ien-shan mountains, which we considered ...
Karl August Wittfogel, G. L. Ulmen, 1978
8
The Aryan Problem: Papers Presented at the Seminar on the ...
A. D. 700, deals with a Sanskrit-Tokharian vocabulary. It contains the expression Taukharika (or Tokharika) Kachafme Tnchake (or isehchake), which may be translated as "Tokharika (means a) Kuchean woman".65 So at the time of the ...
Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo, Sūryanātha Kāmat, 1993
9
Lituanus
I propose then that in Tokharian B, as in Lithuanian, the change of Indo- European *a to o was taking place in word-final position faster than in other positions. The parallel then is clear. In both Old Lithuanian and Tokharian an earlier a was ...
‎1974
10
Xuanzang and the Silk Route
Mahayana texts are found only in Tokharian B, as possible fragments of the Karunapundankasutra and other tantric texts, as noted by Levi24 and others. Most of the texts were translated from Sanskrit or Prakrt. There is a colophon, which ...
Lokesh Chandra, Radha Banerjee, 2008

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOKHARIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Tokharian is used in the context of the following news items.
1
[박필호의 실크로드 속으로] (4) 실크로드의 중국문명·위구르와 티벳 …
... 아시아로 갈 때에는 흉노족이 주로 그 일대를 장악하고 있었고 그 이후에 토카리안(Tokharian), 위구르인(Uyghurs) 등이 현재의 중국 서쪽 지방을 지배하고 있었다. «전자신문, Jul 15»
2
Great Wall goes green as relations with China grow
Some scientists believe they might be Celts – early emigrants to China – because they have tartan clothes and wear felt boots, and probably spoke Tokharian, ... «Irish Times, Mar 14»
3
借谷歌地图探秘罗布泊神秘古墓出土四千年前木乃伊(1)_滚动播报_ …
小河墓地的人说的语言一直是个谜,但梅尔博士认为可能是吐火罗语(Tokharian),印欧语系中的一个古老分支。塔里木盆地发现过用吐火罗语写的手稿,这种语言曾在 ... «搜狐, Dec 13»
4
Deadly Attacks in Kashgar
And their former language was TOKHARIAN. It is not necessary to write here any bosh. And according to genetics Uigurs also not Turkic people.Long live free ... «Radio Free Asia, Jul 11»
5
Major contributor to revival of international Buddhist studies
Among the languages into which Buddhist texts were translated were: (1) Kuchean, also called Tokharian A, an Indo-Europeon language spoken in the Northern ... «Ceylon Daily News, Apr 11»
6
揭秘死亡罗布泊:考古学家发现4000年前木乃伊
小河墓地的人说的语言一直是个谜,但梅尔博士认为可能是吐火罗语(Tokharian),印欧语系中的一个古老分支。塔里木盆地发现过用吐火罗语写的手稿,这种语言曾在 ... «新浪网, Apr 10»
7
DNA experts reveal China's ancient open door to West
Their language remains unknown, but Dr Mair, an expert in the prehistory of the Tarim Basin, believes it could have been Tokharian, an ancient member of the ... «Scotsman, Mar 10»
8
In desertul Taklamakan din Tibet se afla cimitirul mumiilor
Oamenii ingropati in Cimitirul Small River au trait cu peste 2.000 de ani inaintea celor mai vechi documentari ale culturii Tokharian, din zona, insa exista "o ... «Agentia de Investigatii Media, Mar 10»
9
A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets
Manuscripts written in Tokharian have been discovered in the Tarim Basin, ... the earliest evidence for Tokharian, but there is “a clear continuity of culture,” Dr. «New York Times, Mar 10»

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