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TOCHARIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Tocharian" is a kind of...):
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tocharian"):
East Tocharian; Turfan; Turfan dialect; Kuchean; Kuchean dialect; West Tocharian (a dialect of Tocharian)