Tocharian Online

(lrc.la.utexas.edu)

55 points | by Bluestein 6 hours ago ago

9 comments

  • falaki 5 hours ago ago

    Fun to read this in light of this other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279627

  • slwvx 4 hours ago ago

    The next step is to add Tocharian to Babbel and Duolingo ;-)

    • yorwba an hour ago ago

      Before that, it might be a good idea to get the Tocharian script into Unicode. It's on the roadmap: https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/ Unclear whether something specific is holding it up, or just nobody pushing it through the process.

      • TFNA 35 minutes ago ago

        Students of Tocharian A and B have never learned them from the native script. The native script is only for a handful of experts working directly with manuscripts; even many linguists working with Tocharian data cannot read it. Instead, one normally learns and works with these languages in a standard transliteration.

  • contingencies 3 hours ago ago

    Wait wait wait: so Xinjiang is an inalienable part of Europe?

    For those interested in an overview of the history of the area in an historic dramatic frame of reference I can recommend the group of short stories published as Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield.

    • BigTTYGothGF 3 hours ago ago

      > Wait wait wait: so Xinjiang is an inalienable part of Europe

      Only in the sense that Europe is an inalienable part of India.

      • gedy 2 hours ago ago

        Indo-European Union

        • contingencies an hour ago ago

          → Macro African Union → Metazoan Member States → Panspermian Massive → Anomalies Anonymous

          "Hi I'm infinity and I... I cracked and generated a self-replicating biology last aeon. By the second kalpa they'd devised a writing system and started battling each other for spacetime. I've got to stop doing that."

    • Bluestein 3 hours ago ago

      Now that's an interesting take. Gives "old continent" a whole new meaning ...