tocharian

However, the discovery of Tocharian changed this situation: Tocharian was the easternmost of all early IE languages, yet was a centum language!

Tocharian also has evidence of the animate inanimate split, but tocharian is such a mess no one knows what to make of it.

We know what the letters mean for Indic languages, so we can get a pretty good idea of what Tocharian sounded like.

> However, the discovery of Tocharian changed this situation: Tocharian was the easternmost of all early IE languages, yet was a centum language!

The tocharian people were living in the tarim basin, a dry land, far away from any ocean.

This strikes me as very weird, since there is a Tocharian language group and Iranic languages don't belong to it.

But the Tocharian language is too late (400-1200CE) to make any connection to the Tarim mummies, which date to 1800BC.

The Tarim Basim mummies had Indian genetic markers, implying the Tocharian branch of IE may have also arisen out of India.

It is possible that these were those who brought the Tocharian languages in the region.

There also isn't really evidence that the mummies are directly linked to the later Tocharian speakers of the texts in the first place.

There has long been an unproven hypothesis that an ancestor of Tocharian was spoken by the people of the Tarim Basin mummies [1].

There is something puzzling about the existance/presevation of the word in Tocharian B.

Eteo-Tocharian means True/Real Tocharian, and doesn't mean it belongs to "Tocharian".

Old Chinese mjit (蜜; mì) "honey", from Proto-Tocharian ḿət(ə) Wouldn’t be surprised that cause honey in modern Uralic languages are also very similar.

I guess it's because "Tocharian" as used for IE languages of city-states of Tarim considered to be a mistaken name now.

Nevertheless, "Tocharian" remained the standard term for the languages of the Tarim Basin manuscripts and for the people who produced them.[11][16] A few scholars argue that the Yuezhi were originally speakers of Tocharian who later adopted the Bactrian language.

Tocharian is not in the same family (Sino-Tibetan) as any of the Chinese topolects -- it's an Indo-European language spoken in Xinjiang.

The most archaic attested Indo-European language is actually Hittite, possibly followed by Tocharian.

They had brown, red, or blond hair, spoke two different Indo-European languages (Tocharian A and B), and were Buddhist.