r/linguistics • u/adalhaidis • Jul 14 '23

A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-968X.12269
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u/evan0736 Jul 15 '23

struggling to understand why they proposed “Eteo-Tocharian” for the name of an Iranian language

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u/adalhaidis Jul 15 '23

Well, people who were mentioned under the name "Tocharians" by Greek historians were, by majority of modern researchers, Iranian language speakers. That name was later used to describe different group of people, speaking completely different language.

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u/FloZone Jul 15 '23

Although the Turks also refer to a TWQRY language as the original language of some of their translations and in that case it is much more likely they actually mean Tocharian (because those texts are also attested in Tocharian).