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Itkin I. The Linguistic Features of Tocharian A Manuscript Maitreyāvadānavyākaraṇa // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 8. No. 3. September 2002. P. 11—16.
Despite the outstanding results that Tocharian studies
have achieved in the l00 years since they came into existence,
many key questions about the hi story, grammatical
structure and functioning of the Tocharian languages remain
unanswered. This is hardly surprising, as we deal
here with languages that vanished over 1,000 years ago
and are known to us only through a few poorly preserved
texts. It is, however, important to stress that in addition to
lacunae that result from objectively insurmountable difficulties
(the absence of certain roots, grammatical forms,
the paucity and obscurity of the texts, etc.), one notes certain
omissions for which Tocharian scholars themselves
arc, to a certain extent, responsible. The most serious argument
in favour of this view is the striking asymmetry
between the study of Tocharian A and Tocharian B. By
1955. P. Poucha had already published a thesaurus for the
texts in Tocharian A [1]. Unfortunately, it is not free of
technical and sometimes substantive errors, and is now
somewhat outdated, remaining however an irreplaceable
source of information on the grammar and lexicon of
Eastern Tocharian. No corresponding work for Tocharian
B exists. Also in 1955, W. Winter in his standard
work demonstrated that various groups of texts in Western
Tocharian display significant differences in graphics
and phonetics that are most easily interpreted as dialectical
[2]. To the best of our knowledge. no one has conducted
similar research on Tocharian A despite the fact
that the body of Eastern Tocharian manuscripts, although
smaller than that of Western Tocharian, is large enough.
containing texts created over a period of several centuries
to render dubious the tacitly accepted thesis of their linguistic
uniformity...
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рукописи тохарские
язык тохарский А
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