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To·char·i·an also To·khar·i·an       (tō-kâr'ē-ən, -kär'-, -kār'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A member of a people living in Chinese Turkistan until about the tenth century.
  2. Either of the two Indo-European languages of this people, called Tocharian A and Tocharian B, recorded from the seventh to the ninth century.
  3. A branch of the Indo-European language family consisting of the two Tocharian languages.


[From Latin Tocharī, the Tocharians, from Greek Tokharoi.]

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