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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
>
> On the site "Everything You Always Wanted to Know
> About the Tocharians"
> http://www.oxuscom.com/eyawtkat.htm
> It says Tokharian has a large number of loanwords
> --most of the latest being religious vocabulary from
> Sanskrit and Iranian
> Anyone know anything about the rest? Is it largely
> Uralic? Anything possibly BMAC?
You seem to be right abouth both.
For early contact between Tocharian and Uralic (most probably
eastern Ugric rather than western Finnish) see V.V.
Ivanov, "Tocharian and Ugrian," _Studia Linguistica Diachronica et
Synchronica_, Berlin-New York-Amsterdam, 1985, pp. 411-419.
For early contact between Tocharian and the unknown language(s)
spoken in the BMAC area (southern Central Asia), see G.-J.
Pinault, "Further Links between the Indo-Iranian Substratum and the
BMAC Language," in B. Tikkanen & H. Hettrich (eds.), _Themes and
Tasks in Old and Middle Aryan Linguistics. Papers of the 12th World
Sanskrit Conference (Helsinki, 13-18 July 2003)_, Vol. 5, Delhi,
Motilal Banarsidass, 2006, p. 167-196.
There is also evidence of early contacts between Tocharian and
Sinitic (since Shang times), Altaic (esp. early Turkic), Tibetan,
but thet do not appear to be so early as those with Ugric and the
BMAC language(s), which can be roughly dated to c. 2000 BCE.
Regards,
Francesco