Tocharian Online

53 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by Bluestein
(lrc.la.utexas.edu)

9 Comments

slwvx

3 hours ago

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

yorwba

an hour 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

10 minutes 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

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

2 hours 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

Indo-European Union

contingencies

33 minutes 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

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