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    Default There is a Yuezhi man on the phone, do you know how to speak to him?

    Can anyone shed any light on which language family the Yuezhi belonged to? Whenever i sit down on the toilet i thumb through my copy of the Penguin Atlas of Ancient History for some light reading. The author suggests two possiblities for the Yuezhi language; Tocharian or Aryan. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to which of these languages was likely the tongue of the Yuezhi?

    Any information on the Tocharians or the Kushan Empire would likewise be appreciated. Thanks!

    I think I will go and read my atlas now......



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    Tocharian. I would definitely go for Tocharian.

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    It sounds like you are ordering Chinese, Jiri.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brennus View Post
    Can anyone shed any light on which language family the Yuezhi belonged to? Whenever i sit down on the toilet i thumb through my copy of the Penguin Atlas of Ancient History for some light reading. The author suggests two possiblities for the Yuezhi language; Tocharian or Aryan. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to which of these languages was likely the tongue of the Yuezhi?

    Any information on the Tocharians or the Kushan Empire would likewise be appreciated. Thanks!

    I think I will go and read my atlas now......
    Please refrain from using "Aryan" to denote a language as it is no longer prevalent. On that note, do you have in mind Old Persian or Sanskrit? Or do you mean the Indo-Iranian proto-language of the BMAC region's people?

    About Tocharian, I'd be highly skeptical. We don't know much about it, and there's much speculation.
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    Default Re: There is a Yuezhi man on the phone, do you know how to speak to him?

    Made a brief answer to this in another thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...post2053380918

    There's been quite a lot of ink spillt on this issue though, so it takes quite some time to cover the entire literature on it.

    EDIT: Gah! For some reason, the link led to my user profile and not the thread in question. Should be fixed now.
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    Default Re: There is a Yuezhi man on the phone, do you know how to speak to him?

    Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
    It sounds like you are ordering Chinese, Jiri.
    Not chinese. Tocharian.

    Besides, why else would I be talking to a Yuezhi man on the phone? It's easier to send a messenger on a horse.

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    Anachronism fail.
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    Default Re: There is a Yuezhi man on the phone, do you know how to speak to him?

    Thank you for the replies everyone! Apologies to vartan for my obselescent linguistic terms.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Brennus View Post
    Thank you for the replies everyone! Apologies to vartan for my obselescent linguistic terms.
    It's all good. Thanks for bringing up such wonderfully interesting topics! (=
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    Quote Originally Posted by vartan View Post
    It's all good. Thanks for bringing up such wonderfully interesting topics! (=
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    Quote Originally Posted by Populus Romanus View Post
    What my friends at school would say...
    See you in class tomorrow then ;-)
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