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Tocharian (iou)



Tocharian adjective & noun. Also Tokharian. E20.
[French tocharien from Latin Tochari from Greek Tokharoi a Scythian tribe in central Asia.]
A. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or designating an extinct Indo-European language of a central Asian people in the first millennium AD, of which remains have been discovered in Chinese Turkestan. E20.
B. noun.
1. The Tocharian language. M20.
Tocharian A the western dialect of this language, = TURFANIAN. Tocharian B the eastern dialect of this language, = KUCHAEAN.
2. A member of the central Asian people or peoples speaking this language. M20.
Tocharish the Tocharian language E20.