Directory of Tocharian Resources

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A dead language that was spoken in Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang) during the first millennium A.D. and written in a North Indian script. It has two distinct forms, known as Tocharian A and B.

Resources in This Category

• Everything about Tocharian

  http://www.oxuscom.com/eyawtkat.htm
  Article by Mark Dickens on the language's discovery, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, dialects, and Indo-European context.

• TITUS: Tocharian Manuscripts: THT

  http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm
  Includes transliterations and translations as well as scans of Tocharian A and Tocharian B manuscripts, from TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien [Compendium of Indo-European texts and linguistic materials])

• Tocharian

  http://wordgumbo.com/tocharian
  A Tocharian-to-English dictionary with nearly 200 words. Often provides etymologies as well.

• Tocharian A Texts

  http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/tocharian_a_raw_notes.html
  A very coarsely annotated collection of texts.

• Tocharian Alphabet

  http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tocharian.htm
  GIF and JPG images with information on its origin and notable features.

• Tocharian B Texts

  http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/tocharian_b_raw_notes.html
  A very coarsely annotated collection of texts.

• Tokharian and Baltic - William R. Schmalstieg

  http://www.lituanus.org/1974/74_3_01.htm
  An essay drawing parallels between the Tokharian and the Baltic subfamilies of Indo-European languages.

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