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Tocharian Prince mourning the Cremation of the Buddha, in a mural from Maya Cave (224) in Kizil. He is cutting his forehead with a knife, a practice of self-mutilation also known among the Scythians. [37] Most of the Tocharian inscriptions are based on Buddhist monastic texts, which suggests that the Tocharians largely embraced Buddhism.
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 ...
Kuchean (also known as Tocharian B or West Tocharian) was a Western member of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European languages, extinct from the ninth century. Once spoken in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia, Tocharian B shows an internal chronological development; three linguistic stages have been detected. [1] The oldest stage is attested only ...
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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. ...
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