Tocharian - Introduction 2/3
Channel: Victor Pfeiffer
Date: 2021-09-11

Tocharian is the most recently discovered branch of Indo-European. Though being the easternmost subphylum of IE, Tocharian is centum (see introduction). The branch consists of the two languages Tocharian A and Tocharian B, which were mutually unintelligible. A third one, Tocharian C, is attested in a few loanwords in Gāndhārī (see sounds). The languages are remarkable for intricate palatalization patterns (see words), a completely restructured morphology (especially in the noun, with agglutinative secondary cases) and remarkable morpho-syntactic properties like group inflection (see structures).


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