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14 de ago. de 2023 · As I said a few years ago, Tocharian is one of the Indo-European languages I’ve found most intriguing; now Ali Jones at Phys.org writes about a very promising project called TheTocharianTrek: The research is helping to pin down where the Tocharians were located in the period between 3,500 BC, when they may have left their ancestral home, and their first written history in 400 AD.
Therefore, speakers of early Tocharian must have made a long trek eastward before they settled in the Tarim Basin. Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests that they first moved east to southern Siberia around 3500 BCE and then south to the Tarim Basin in China, where they may have arrived as early as 2000 BCE.
Therefore, speakers of early Tocharian must have made a long trek eastward before they settled in the Tarim Basin. Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests that they first moved east to southern Siberia around 3500 BCE and then south to the Tarim Basin in China, where they may have arrived as early as 2000 BCE.
The Tocharian Trek aims to write, and partly rewrite, the linguistic prehistory of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China and southern Central Siberia. To date, the most important results are the following: Peyrot, Michaël. 2019. "The deviant typological profile of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European may be due to Uralic substrate influence".
Therefore, speakers of early Tocharian must have made a long trek eastward before they settled in the Tarim Basin. Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests that they first moved east to southern Siberia around 3500 BCE and then south to the Tarim Basin in China, where they may have arrived as early as 2000 BCE.
Combined with evidence of contact between Tocharian and other languages and language families, as well as results from extra-linguistic fields such as archa eology and genetics, my research aims at informing our understanding of the prehistoric migrations of the Tocharians. CV. 2019 → PhD candidate, The Tocharian Trek, Leiden University
Niels Schoubben is a PhD-student in the ERC-project "The Tocharian Trek" under the supervision of dr. Michaël Peyrot and prof. dr. Sasha Lubotsky. He researches language contact between Middle Indic (Niya Gāndhārī), Middle Iranian and Tocharian in the administrative documents (3rd-4th century AD) from the Middle Indic Shan-Shan kingdom at the former southern Silk Road in present-day ...
