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出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/02 05:22 UTC 版)
Tocharian or Tokharian is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family. The name is taken from the people known to the Greeks (Ptolemy VI, 11, 6) as the Tocharians (Ancient Greek: Τόχαροι, Tókharoi). These are sometimes identified with the Yuezhi and the Kushans. The term Tokharistan usually refers to 1st millennium Bactria, which the Kushans ruled. A Turkic text refers to the Turfanian language (Tocharian A) as twqry. Interpretation is difficult, but Friedrich W. K. Müller has associated this with the name of the Bactrian Tokharoi.