TOCHARIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tocharian mean? 

• TOCHARIAN (noun)
  The noun TOCHARIAN has 1 sense:

1. a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.

  Familiarity information: TOCHARIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOCHARIAN (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)