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Tocharian languages
unknown
2007-12-11 00:54:52
Last week there were over 100 mentions of Tocharian languages in the news . . .


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More Indo-European discussions
Joshua
2008-02-08 19:03:00
The Tarim basin at the start of the common era was similarly diverse; two varieties of Iranian language were common (Khotanese Saka and Sogdian) probably three Tocharian languages, Chinese, several Indic languages (Prakrits, ...


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First session: Introduction
Johannes Vogelgesang
2008-01-18 09:12:00
Tocharian languages - Tracian language Proto-Germanic Proto-Germanic is the hypothetical common ancestor (proto-language) of all the Germanic languages, which include, among others, modern English, Dutch, German and Swedish. ...


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[VIDEO] After almost 10 years of silence, new documentary on White ...
Aistulf
2008-03-03 22:39:18
The DNA results were cunningly used to conclude that Tocharians were partly Asians, and of mixed race, and not Europeans in the end of the documentary. They went even as far as to claim the Tocharians and their environment ...


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Revisiting exchanges with Clyde Winters on the Meroitic script Pt. 2
Mystery Solver
2008-03-02 09:09:00
Yet even though we find cognition between some Cushitic and Nubian we can not use these languages to completely decipher Meroitic as proven by many past researchers. The Tocharian language on the otherhand, does allow us to read ...


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Tarim Mummies ~ Advanced TOEFL
rebecka
2008-01-27 01:59:31
The subsequent discovery of several ancient manuscripts has attested the 2000-year-old Tocharian languages to the same geographical area. Although no direct link has been made between the two discoveries, their non-Chinese origin ...


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Fragments of the Tocharian (China India Germany)
geo
2008-01-31 01:58:57
And although, to be honest, I had no idea that the Tocharian language even existed 24 hours ago, after becoming curious about it when reading up on Ji, I now see the mysterious Tocharians as prototypical agents of globalization. ...


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[language] English is a foreign language
Jay Lake
2008-02-25 17:16:16
Then there are languages with an ethnic basis but no current or historical political basis. Romany, or Yiddish. Likewise dead languages, such as Sumerian or Tocharian A. No speakers, no ethnic affiliation, no political basis. ...


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The quest for the Proto-Indo-European homeland.
Sid
2008-02-24 10:30:00
Thereafter progress was slower and it was not until the late 19th and early 20th Century that the last two major language groups were admitted to the fold. The Tocharian languages - once spoken in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia were ...


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Languages spoken over time in Xinjiang
kealist
2008-02-07 22:36:34
Maybe Turkic / Iranian / Tocharian language. The Middle Period. first part is Poorly documented Starr. Ruanruan () - mongolian empire. Mid 4th century to late 6th century. Northern Wei Dynasty () - were at least attacking ...


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Retracing the old proto-historic migrations
maria
2008-01-19 13:06:47
All these major branches then bred their own daughter languages. There are also the Anatolian language in the Asia Minor region and the now-dead Tocharian languages in Chinese Turkmenistan which originated from proto-IE languages. ...


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list of languages
Neo Ibrah
2007-12-23 07:38:00
Ethnologue lists about 7330 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 39491 alternate language names and dialects. However, in this article, only a few are given. ...


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Aryan Ancestors on the Silk Road
The Old Man
2008-02-23 00:21:00
It has long been known that around the first century AD the northwestern part of China was inhabited by a Caucasian people who spoke a language called by scholars Tocharian. In the early part of this century, French and German ...


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Dream Record 1 : The City on the Cliff
rasmatan
2008-02-10 03:37:20
I need to do some research on the languages of the Asian steppes (Mongols and stuff) to find a good name for it. EDIT: You know what language they speak? They speak TOCHARIAN. That's right. TOCHARIAN. They spoke that over a thousand ...


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Jarble
bezymianny
2007-10-11 01:43:00
The mummies, particularly the early ones, are associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin. The cemetery at Yanbulaq contained 29 mummies which date from 1800500 BC, 21 of which are ...


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Aryans: Culture Bearers to China Mark Deavin In July 1996 two ...
Karakuyash
2008-01-12 10:08:00
Known as Tocharians, they are described more accurately as Arsi, which is cognate with Sanskrit arya and Old Persian ariya, meaning "Aryan": "that which is noble or worthy." Their language, which has similarities to the Celtic and ...


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Linguistics.The Origins of the English Language and Origin of ...
Bevsiem
2008-02-16 22:35:46
Over subsequent millenniums the same trunk sprouted Tocharian, Armenian, Greek, Albanian, Iranian, Indic, Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, French/Iberian, Italic and Celtic language groups. A Marsden Fund grant from the Government and a James ...


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Learner's Diary 23 October 2007 (Session 2)
bianca
2007-10-30 10:18:00
A question that still remains unsolved is how the ancient Tocharian language came to be spoken in an area so far removed from the Indo-European language zone as it is very close to IE When comparative philology developed in the 19th ...


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Tocharian Languages
BrokenChin
2005-05-15 12:55:00
Tocharian also spelled Tokharian, small group of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Tarim River Basin (in the centre of the modern Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, China) during the latter half of the 1st ...


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ILfDT: Tocharian Languages
David
2007-03-14 00:28:31
I Live for Dead Tongues: Tocharian Languages - the easternmost Indo-European language group Language family: Indo-European Where it was spoken: Tarim basin in what is now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern People's Republic ...


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China's Mystery Mummies (2007) The lost Aryans from Asia
Aistulf
2008-02-27 15:30:13
A cunning conclusion, not based on facts, not mentioning several other aspects such as language, as I mentioned earlier; they spoke Indo-European languages and not even fully researched yet (as they even admit). ...


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Indo-European Languages
unknown
2007-09-27 07:51:40
... independent languages and cultures, but still in loose contact and thus enabling the spread of technology and early loans between the groups (except for the Anatolian and Tocharian branches, already isolated from these processes). ...


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Meanwhile, in Iran....
Damon Lord
2008-01-28 23:45:00
Ah, the joys of language. Today news reaches me that in Iran, two new words have been discovered in the long-dead tongue Elamite, which died out round about the period of Alexander the Great. I did a short course in the Cardiff ...


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Schleichers Fable in Proto-Indo-European and its proto-languages ...
dnghu.org
2007-11-11 20:14:06
There has been a growing interest in our Schleichers Fable, especially in the different known Indo-European proto-languages, as they appear in our Indo-European Grammar. I personally just wanted to show the different (mostly ...


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Resources for older languages. (Links & Internet Resources)
Pandafair
2007-09-21 05:42:17
... Old Iranian, Old Irish, Latin, Old Norse, Old Church Slavonic, Sanksrit, and Tocharian. The lessons seem to give a fairly good grounding in reading. There are also texts available, as well as general information on the languages. ...


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Aryan Blues
Nest head
2008-01-11 14:06:33
The daughter languages of Aryan are divided into Satem and Centum tongues. The Centum languages were Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian. The Satem tongues were Indo-Iranian, Slavic, Baltic, Armenian, ...


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Indo-Iranians
unknown
2008-03-01 09:02:41
Indo-European topics. Indo-European languages Albanian Armenian Baltic Celtic Germanic Greek Indo-Iranian (Indo-Aryan, Iranian) Italic Slavic. extinct: Anatolian Paleo-Balkans (Dacian, Phrygian, Thracian) Tocharian ...


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Afghanistan Da ...
animator
2008-01-21 02:56:00
Ancient Eastern Iranian languages such as Avestan may have been spoken in Afghanistan around a similar time-line with the rise of Zoroastrianism. Around 1000 BCE (or earlier), the Indo-Aryan Vedic civilization may have arisen near the ...


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Camunni Alphabet and it's Links to Other Ancients Alphabets
Brixia Fidelis
2008-01-02 23:33:00
Tocharian, the so-called "Indo-European" language of the Tarim Basin, (possibly an intertwined language Hungarian/Gandhara Sanskrit), also had a limited phonology (Wikipedia). Hungarian also, in ancient time, was lacking the [b], [d], ...


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The place of Armenia and the Armenian language
ABN
2007-11-05 01:28:19
Tocharian was another language family that diverged from the Indo-European protolanguage quite early. Tocharian is one of the more recently discovered Indo-European languages, first recognized in the early decades of the 20th century in ...


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Foreward - by Dr. Napoleon Savescu
admin
2008-01-09 02:12:49
There, and in their subsequent northern expansion was formed the Proto-Indo-European community which subsequently gave birth to all the historical Indo-European languages The Tarim Basin, Tocharian, and Indo-European origins: a view ...


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st catherines site myspace.com
unprofanable
2008-02-08 04:44:00
... java tochararray java example tochararray+java tocharian tocharian a tocharian a alphabet tocharian alphabet tocharian and lewis tocharian b tocharian language tocharian mummies tocharian puzzle tocharian symbols tocharians tochas ...


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MABUS-NOSTRADAMUS-3097
AGM
2007-11-26 15:06:00
The eastern Celts spoke a now-dead language called Tocharian, which is related to Celtic languages and part of the Indo-European group. They seem to have been a peaceful folk, as there are few weapons among the Cherchen find and there ...


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Khvarenah
tubious
2007-08-04 18:56:00
This meaning subsequently passed into Tocharian languagesTocharian. In Manicheanism, Sogdian frn signified "luck" and was a designator of the "first luminary". Manichean Parthian farh again signifies "glory. ...


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Illness, Old-age and Death
PhoeniX
2007-02-10 20:57:01
There are two main Tocharian languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B (TA and TB respectively). I do not have much knowledge of TA, all I know is that it already seemed to be a dying language which mostly had ritualistic uses, ...


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List of all languages in the world (including extinct)
postmaster
2007-07-31 00:28:26
Tocharian A and B (Indo-European) (extinct) 780. Toda (Dravidian) 781. Tok Pisin (English-based creole) 782. Tokelauan (Malayo-Polynesian) 783. Tonga (Bantu) 784. Tongan (Malayo-Polynesian) 785. Tongva (Uto-Aztecan) (extinct) ...


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Garlic Origins
MMcM
2007-11-12 00:56:00
These spread throughout the Middle Ages and versions are known in many languages, including Latin, Armenian, and Serbian (from which Georgian and some of the Russian translations were made). In France, Walter of Chtillon wrote a very ...


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Anatolian Branch
bezymianny
2007-10-13 21:23:00
This makes Anatolian the first known branch of Indo-European that has become extinct, the only other known branch that has no living descendants being Tocharian, which ceased to be spoken around the 8th century. The Hittite language (or ...


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English Version
Kai
2007-11-29 03:37:00
The two parts of the name come from two of the country's main languages: Mor (Burkina) and Dioula (Faso). Upper Volta (former name): after the Volta's two main tributary rivers, both originating in Burkina Faso. ...


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Indo-European
TRB
2006-09-02 21:16:00
Armenian language, attested from the 5th century. Tocharian languages, extinct tongues of the Tocharians, extant in two dialects, attested from roughly the 6th century. Balto-Slavic languages, believed by many Indo-Europeanists to ...


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Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending
Glen Gordon
2007-07-17 08:05:00
It was a flash I had after I wrote something previously about the subjunctive and its development into the present-future indicative of non-Anatolian/non-Tocharian languages of the Indo-European family of languages. What always.


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Sindh
Travellers
2007-11-05 12:31:00
The main languages are Sindhi and Urdu. In Sanskrit, the province was dubbed Sindhu meaning "ocean". The Assyrians (as early as the seventh century BCE) knew the region as Sinda, the Persians Abisind, the Greeks Sinthus, ...


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Comment on Charles Krauthammer says Everybody is Jewish by tommy
unknown
2006-10-04 05:55:19
The relation of those languages is well established. No one disputes the common origin of all Indo-European languages. Even early British colonialists in India were surprised by how Sanskrits numerals where vaguely similar to English ...


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Indo-European 'Aryan' Homeland The map above revels the route, as ...
Arevordi
2005-12-24 22:24:00
historical Indo-European languages, while those of Anatolia (Hittite, Luwian and Palaic) are actually an off-shoot of the Pre-Proto-Indo-European group that stayed behind. According to Renfrew ["The Tarim basin, Tocharian, ...


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What's a "tocharian"?
Bloggette
2005-06-18 22:18:00
Tocharian is numero uno on the chart. Now we're talking a language that is older than dirt...5th millennium BC kind of dirt. I typed in "tocharian", and Blogmaster took it, so thanks to the Prot-Indo-European family of languages, ...


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The Riddle of the White `Mummies' Of Ancient China
6KILLER
2007-09-03 05:13:22
The mummies bear no records of their linguistic or religious status, and the Indo-European Tokhar ian (also spelled Tocharian) language of the region is attested from a much later date (3rd-8th centuries AD) than the mummies, ...


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In Search of the Indo-Europeans
Aine MacDermot
2005-05-15 21:22:46
Of course, language and race arent necessarily connected at all, ie the Indo-European group in western China was the Tocharians. Tocharian is an extinct Indo-European language which stands by itself as one of the twelve major groups ...


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The Know-A-Couple-Of-Things
Aunty Christ
2007-03-08 21:43:00
... which happened quite a bit with meso Id end up copy editing and fact checking Tocharian A in the Languages of the World macropaedia article while some other lucky bastard would get Romance languages, which seems a lot harder, ...


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What is the Proto-Indo-European language?
dnghu.org
2007-01-23 19:00:41
Technorati Tags: Indo-European, language, linguistics, language family, grammar, historical, history, hypothesis, PIE, Romance, Latin, Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, Italic, Celtic, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Indo-Iranian, Tocharian, Europe, ...


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Buddhist Manuscripts of the Great Silk Road
Value Creation
2007-09-13 03:10:00
We find 13 languages, living and dead, reflected in these texts: 1) Sanskrit, 2) Northwestern Prakrit G$ndh$r1, 3) Khotanese Saka, 4) Tocharian B (Kuchean), 5) Sogdian, 6) Old Uighur, 7) Mongolian, 8) Oirat, 9) Manchu, 10) Chinese, ...


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Specific Beta-ing for Ancient Languages
Harry Potter Beta Readers
2005-03-14 13:32:25
Any requests for the following languages are okay: Latin Ancient Greek Hittite Luwian Lycian Tocharian Vedic/Sanskrit Avestan Old Irish Middle Welsh Old Breton Old English Gothic Response Speed: During workdays as fast as possible. ...


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Intro and a new conlang
Conlangs
2005-09-06 02:18:00
I take nothing as gospel, we've been butchering our own languages since we first said "ookachaka". That's how I figure we got Tocharian and Gaeilge from one small group o' languages called IE. I'm always finding new stuff to consider, ...


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Greek language
Arunpras4000
2007-09-02 23:17:00
Thracians Tocharians Proto-Indo-Europeans Language Society Religion Urheimat hypotheses Kurgan hypothesis Anatolia Armenia India PCT Indo-European studies Main article: History of the Greek language ...


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I've been thinking a lot, and now I think I want to create one of ...
Mark Williamson
2004-12-03 03:35:00
In addition, I have been going through a Tocharian B swadesh list I created a while ago, making cognation decisions for all the languages in Isidore Dyen's lexicostatistical analysis of living Indo-European languages. ...


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Proto-Germanic Genetics
My secret stash
2007-08-04 03:31:00
Though the Germanic family of Indo-European languages is the best documented, and its culture is among the most well analyzed and described, much of its prehistory, from the Proto-Indo-European period to the Proto-Germanic, ...


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Comment on Vedic Origins : Children of Danu by Neville Ramdeholl
Neville Ramdeholl
2007-08-05 18:22:02
WERGILD: The custom of wergild was brought to India from across the steppes from the Hittite civilization before the break up of the IE family of languages. No other people practiced wergild but IE peoples. The Indo -Iranians knew this ...


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Pagels Redux
Kushana Torumekia
2007-05-01 08:29:00
... and out comes the original language version of the text, the reference grammars, and the dictionaries (and, if you're me, the magnifying glass.) [* Kushana's To Do List: Learn Tocharian]. You must know this already as historians, ...


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Abstract Women
PhoeniX
2007-06-21 12:13:03
One thing is certain though; it developed after Hittite split off from the other languages, since there's absolutely no sign at all of a feminine in the Hittite language. Also Tocharian; although it has a feminine; shows quite a ...


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The Speaking Child
The Daily Growler
2007-01-23 02:24:00
In the Southern Tarim Basin in what now is Turkestan, formerly Western Turkestan, Tocharian A and B languages, also known as Chinese Turkestan back then, an area Frye called a "linguistic gold mine" with Tocharian A and B, ...


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LexiLine Journal #76 - 2002 : Aill Na Mireann Central Stone of Ireland
Andis Kaulins
2002-10-17 19:34:00
... it means that some language group we today call Indo-European ultimately divided into Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavonic, Italic, Illyrian, Armenian, Hellenic (Greek), Anatolian (Hittite), Tocharian and Indo-Iranian branches. ...


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Grimms law
Administrator
2006-09-14 02:17:05
It establishes a set of regular correspondences between early Germanic stops and fricatives (see: Consonant) and the stop consonants of certain other Indo-European languages (Grimm used mostly Latin and Greek for illustration). ...


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Bones Of Contention: PC, Religion, Science
benning
2007-02-21 11:43:00
Tocharian or Tokharian is one of the most obscure branches of the group of Indo-European languages. The name of the language is taken from people known to the Greek historians (Ptolemy VI, 11, 6) as the Tocharians (Greek: , ...


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The Elusive Origins of the Indo-Europeans
anonymous
2005-12-24 14:41:00
Archaic languages that preserve Proto-Indo-European forms are often found on the edge of the Indo-European world. Many correspondences link, for example, Germanic in northern Europe and Tocharian in central Asia. ...


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Choreographies of the Readable
gary barwin
2006-05-19 03:15:00
It has a remarkable selection of writing systems, from abjads to syllabaries, with information about the languages. I was particularily enthralled by Armenian punctuation. And also how beautiful they seemed, mysterious little ...


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Background
Common World Lineage
2007-07-22 18:12:00
Anacalypsis : An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions, the product of more than twenty years of research, upon the average applied for nearly ten hours daily ...


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LSA BLOGGING.
languagehat
2005-06-30 19:36:16
I've been awash in nostalgia reading Angelo's reports on the LSA Institute at Sauvage Noble (1.1, 1.2, 1.3); ah for the days of splashing around in long-dead Anatolian languages and Tocharian transliteration! He reflects on "the basic ...


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Comment on Charles Krauthammer says Everybody is Jewish by tommy
unknown
2006-10-04 06:02:46
The Continental Celtic languages are extinct (Gaulish is the most prominent example). The Insular languages are broken into two groups: p-Celtic and q-Celtic. Examples of q-Celtic (Irish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic). ...


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Patron Mutant of Linguists
alea
2006-09-19 20:56:00
The fact that he is from Upstate New York and has a knack for languages has led him to be compared to another boy from that area known as a translator (I think it goes without saying who I mean here). And here's where we have a perfect ...


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Venerable Xuanzang
kevin@newsfinder.org
2006-09-15 09:07:00
He subsequently left his brother and returned to Changan to study foreign languages and to continue his study of Buddhism. He began his mastery of Sanskrit in 626, and probably also studied Tocharian. During this time Xuanzang also ...


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About Thai Buddhism
dippybangkok
2007-07-21 16:12:25
For example, the precept pertaining to sexual misconduct becomes a precept of celibacy; the fourth precept, which pertains to incorrect speech, is expanded to four: lying, harsh language, slander, and idle chit-chat. ...


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Langage Skillz
caelestis
2006-02-07 19:27:00
Prussian, Quenya, Sanskrit, Sindarinyes, Quenya and SindarinSogdian, and Sumerian:. And Tocharianthey dont specify A or BUmbrian, and Vulcan!:. They clearly appreciate ... erudition. The ones Ill admit to:. my languages ...


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Beyond languagese
Razib
2005-07-10 19:46:00
... other points of evidence do suggest that there was an association of the pre-Tocharian tribes with groups that later founded the western branches of the Indo-European language family (in particular the Celtic branch). ...


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Celebrating Knowledge Conference - Day 2: The International ...
Ivan Chew
2005-11-15 14:50:00
They found that the manuscripts were written in Chinese, Tibetan, Khatoshti, Urghur,; Khotanese, Tangut, Tocharian, Turkic, Sanskrit, even Hebrew. Some are already extinct languages. Truly a multilingual library back then [evidence of ...


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Pokorny's Back
Pierre Joris
2006-09-06 10:54:00
I had always been fascinated by etymologies and living and working as much between languages as in any one, as I did then and still do, this fascination had hardened into the need to know as much as possible about the origin of the ...


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In Service of the Pen
dresstosurvive
2007-02-01 12:04:53
English was not the only language to capture my flighty interests. Foreign languages, the further obscured by time, the better. Were they slightly more accessible to modern beings, I would certainly study the Tocharian dialects. ...


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Klein's Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
referencebooks
2005-12-12 11:17:25
It traces their origin back as far as proto-Indo-European, Tocharian or other earliest theorized languages, and follows their sense development down through history from the present sense. Included in the book, in addition to regular ...


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Hewson / Bubenik: From Case to Adposition
hastasiempre
2007-02-17 17:11:01
In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations ...


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Jones-Bley: Proceedings of the 17th annual UCLA Indo-European ...
hastasiempre
2007-01-03 23:09:26
Tracing the value of syntactic parameters in ancient languages : the Latin nominal phrase / Chiara Gianollo 9. Indo-European "hawthorns" / Martin E. Huld 10. Speaking in tongues : collocations of word and deed in Proto-Indo-European ...


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New Monograph by Drs Bubenik and Hewson
Carrie
2007-01-04 19:21:00
copy of their co-authored monograph 'From Case to Adposition: The Development of Configurational Syntax in Indo-European Languages' to their publisher John Benjamins (Amsterdam) on 31 August 2006. The monograph examines in 16 chapters ...


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Language-philic
dsmoen
2007-04-02 20:10:03
Tocharian -- extinct branch. Balto-Slavic -- I'd like to study more Serbo-Croatian (because my nephew speaks it) or Russian. Albanian -- not a major branch, but it's interesting how different it is than other branches. ...


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A red-haired body found in a remote desert in west...
Diarmid
2006-09-01 14:12:11
The Eastern Celts spoke a now-dead language called Tocharian which is related to Celtic languages and part of the Indo-European group. They seem to have been a peaceful lot as there are few weapons among the find and there is little ...


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Language maps from Pre-Proto-Indo-European (Urheimat) to modern ...
dnghu.org
2007-02-14 18:10:05
... Homeland, Indo-European Urheimat, Indo-Uralic, Tocharian, Albanian, Thracian, Lusitanian, Greek, Armenian, Proto-Greek, Mycenaean, Anatolian, Hittite, Luwian, Indo-Hittite, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, European languages, Asian languages.


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History 1: The Kushans
Kanishk Gupta
2006-07-27 10:17:11
... generally considered as the easternmost speakers of Indo-European languages, who had been living in the arid grasslands of eastern Central Asia, in modern-day Xinjiang and Gansu, possibly speaking versions of the Tocharian language, ...


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As the fortunes and the warlike vigor of the Celts...
Smith
2004-02-04 14:33:00
As the fortunes and the warlike vigor of the Celts declined, their languages were supplanted by those of their conquerors. Tragic! Have you ever, unable to sleep at five in the morning, gone to your bookshelf and retrieved your copies ...


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Language and Darwin
PhoeniX
2006-10-30 18:59:51
Some languages seem more fit to survive. Therefore daily languages cease to exist, while languages like English are currently being learnt by milions. English can be said to be reproducing, while a language like, say, Tocharian was not ...


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Lithuania - Looking Forward to the Journey
Steve
2006-09-25 02:21:00
This includes the Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Indo-Aryan language groups as well as a number of extinct ones like Hittite and Tocharian. Lithuanian along with Latvian and an extinct Prussian belong to the Baltic group. ...


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Out of Africa-First Stop India?
unknown
2007-05-29 21:46:48
HOWEVER, there is plenty of room for the earliest (lets say proto proto-Indo-Europeans) languages to have left no recorded traces. In particular, those related to the Tocharian A & B of western China, could have disappeared ...


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Graduate School?
Jonathan Manker
2006-12-07 02:22:53
I also want a good course selection with lots of old Germanic and Celtic languages, along with some stuff like Tocharian and Hittite. While in an ideal world this should be my main concern, it sadly ranks of lesser importance (probably ...


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Time flies...
Rems
2006-01-30 19:27:00
I didnt want to be in it in the first place, but JF seems to have problems interpreting negation particles in his own native language, so suddenly I was on the dem team for both New Scotland and Dunedin. ...


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Aryanosophy
Moody Lawless
2007-03-20 16:50:00
Language groups of the Aryan [Proto-Indo-European] family; Hellenic-Italic-Albanian-Tocharian-Germanic-Armenian-Balto/Slavic-Celtic-Anatolian-Indo/Iranian. For me,the concept 'Aryan' is what I would imagine 'Semitic' would be to another ...


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RE: Psy Ops & Media Watch Thread
Acharya
2006-10-17 19:06:50
established the existence of a language family that included Tocharian, Indic, Iranian, Armenian, Anatolian, Greek, Italic, Phrygian, Thracian, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, and Celtic. Second, we acknowledge that the relations among these ...


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dsgood @ 2006-04-03T23:18:00
Dan Goodman
2006-04-03 23:51:26
Or Ancient Iranian, Lithuvanian, Classical Armenian or some other obscure languages? (Coming soon -- Tocharian B!) The Diebold Institute for Indo-European Studies at the University of Texas has put/is putting up a series of quick survey ...


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What will the World Look Like in AD 2100
Vishen
2006-04-18 17:13:41
There will be a downside...cultures and languages that cannot compete in this global information pool will subside and die out. As more and more children start speaking English much of the world's diversity get's reduced to museum ...


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Abstract Women
PhoeniX
2007-06-21 12:13:03
Since my last article about the alternant nouns of Tocharian I've been thinking about the development of the feminine in other Indo-European languages. The feminine gender will always be a rather mysterious thing. ...


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P and Q
Bzzzt! Crackle!!
2007-03-14 02:23:57
... but later found in Hittite and Tocharian (both extinct). " So, you see, one variety of the Celtic language used a P for certain words, and the other used a Q for the same word. Thus, "Mind your Ps and Qs" is quite ancient.


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Germanic lexicon project
unknown
2005-05-17 06:52:57
... in various forms, covered the following languages: Gothic; Anglo-Saxon; Old and Middle High German; Old Saxon, Old Frisian; and Old Norse. Resources for the linguistic study of Latin, Old Irish and Tocharian are also available. ...


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The relation of Hindu and Celtic Culture
The Ontaryan
2007-05-08 06:06:00
In this case the commonality of Indo-European languages would not rest upon a common ethnicity with the interior Indo-Aryans but on a common ethnicity with peripheral Aryans on the northwest of India. ...


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Comments Persian and Hollywood
Oslonor
2006-04-21 08:13:00
Even though, linguistically Iranians share a few words with European language this is not necessarilly indictive of a common lineage (Arabs in Lebanon speak Arabic but are genetically different from Saudi Arabians). ...


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Tajik Info
REM
2006-03-30 19:39:00
Tajiks descend from the Aryans, an ancient people who spoke Indo-European languages, and are among the oldest inhabitants of the region. They can trace their roots back to the original Iranian (Aryan) peoples that settled Central Asia ...


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endnotes II
sritantra
2006-01-05 01:58:00
It is found in Tocharian, Chinese, and Altaic [Tungusic]. It eventually turns up quite early in the languages of Europe... I am about to publish [in the Journal of the American Oriental Society] a paper on an old Indo-Iranian word ...


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