Like Dust on the Silk Road

"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?” are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living in the south Siberian...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1648382025-08-09T05:06:20Z Like Dust on the Silk Road Bernard, Chams Benoît Central Asian studies Indo-European linguistics Indo-European studies Indo-Iranian studies Iranian linguistics Iranology Tocharology ancient China ancient Russia archaeogenetics archaeology contact linguistics historical grammar historical linguistics historical phonology language contact linguistic methodology loanwords thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology "How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?” are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living in the south Siberian Steppes, and with a people related to the Oxus Civilization (BMAC). This Iranian people spoke a specific language, called here “Old Steppe Iranian”. They gave Tocharians many words, such as mañiye ‘servant’, etswe ‘burden-carrying horse’ or ‘mule’, pāke ‘portion, share’. The BMAC-related people gave the Tocharians other words such as etre ‘hero’ and kercapo ‘donkey’. This book reconstructs features of the language of both these peoples, and examines how they influenced the Tocharians. Based on the latest archaeological findings, it also suggests a reconstruction of the chronology and the way the Tocharians followed before entering the Tarim Basin. Winner of the 2nd prize for the best dissertation of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft prize for the best Indo-European studies dissertation. 2025-08-09T05:06:19Z 2025-08-09T05:06:19Z 2025-08-08T14:26:57Z 2025 book ONIX_20250808T162309_9789004732537_7 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105264 9789004732537 9789004732520 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/164838 eng Leiden Studies in Indo-European open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105264/1/9789004732537_webready_content_text.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004732537 10.1163/9789004732537 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 e0bd4373-4073-4641-9c13-774e2b3e6588 da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789004732537 9789004732520 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 276-70-028 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research 10.13039/501100003246 open access
spellingShingle Central Asian studies
Indo-European linguistics
Indo-European studies
Indo-Iranian studies
Iranian linguistics
Iranology
Tocharology
ancient China
ancient Russia
archaeogenetics
archaeology
contact linguistics
historical grammar
historical linguistics
historical phonology
language contact
linguistic methodology
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thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
Bernard, Chams Benoît
Like Dust on the Silk Road
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topic Central Asian studies
Indo-European linguistics
Indo-European studies
Indo-Iranian studies
Iranian linguistics
Iranology
Tocharology
ancient China
ancient Russia
archaeogenetics
archaeology
contact linguistics
historical grammar
historical linguistics
historical phonology
language contact
linguistic methodology
loanwords
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BX Indo-Iranian languages
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
topic_facet Central Asian studies
Indo-European linguistics
Indo-European studies
Indo-Iranian studies
Iranian linguistics
Iranology
Tocharology
ancient China
ancient Russia
archaeogenetics
archaeology
contact linguistics
historical grammar
historical linguistics
historical phonology
language contact
linguistic methodology
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