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The Tocharian B word akeññe may have referred to people of Agni, with a derivation meaning "borderers, marchers". [20] One of the Tocharian A texts have ārśi-käntwā as a name for their own language, so that ārśi may have meant "Agnean", though "monk" is also possible. [21]
Anibes (possibly an originally Tocharian people, later Scythianized and mixed with Scythians or Sakas migrants and conquerors they shifted their ethnic and linguistic identity and formed the Anibes Scythians or Anibes Sakas or Tumshuq Sakas, Tumshuqese speakers) [20] - in Kasia region, modern Kashgar / Kāshígá'ěr, Shule County and Tumshuq.
Tocharian may refer to: Tocharians, an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in Central Asia; Tocharian clothing, clothing worn by those people; Tocharian languages, two (or perhaps three) Indo-European languages spoken by those people; Tocharian script, the script used to write the Tocharian languages
Tocharian languages A (blue), B (red) and C (green) in the Tarim Basin. [42] Tarim oasis towns are given as listed in the Book of Han (c. 2nd century BC), with the areas of the squares proportional to population. [43] Tocharian A and B are significantly different, to the point of being mutually unintelligible. A common Proto-Tocharian language ...
Tocharian languages (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Tocharians" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
These people were called "Tocharian" by late 19th-century scholars who identified them with the Tókharoi described by ancient Greek sources as inhabiting Bactria. Although this identification is now generally considered mistaken, the name has become customary.
Tocharian clothing refers to clothing worn by the Tocharians. A series of murals from Kizil , Kizilgaha and Kumtura caves depicting Kuchean royalties, knights, swordsmen and donors have provided the best source of information on Tocharian costume.
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