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  1. 🎓🔍 Ah, the noble quest to resuscitate #Tocharian, a #language so crucial its absence has gone unnoticed for centuries. Join the excitement of linguistic CPR with #academic superheroes Krause and Slocum as they attempt to revive a #language duo that most people can't even pronounce, let alone differentiate. Spoiler: Tocharian A and B are still dead, but hey, at least you can say you tried. 🦖📚
    lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/tokol/0 #linguistics #revival #heroes #preservation #HackerNews #ngated

  2. The origins and affinities of #Tocharian - languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ fascinating discussion here: "they moved east from Ukraine abruptly around 3500 BCE, when the speakers of Core IE were still in contact with each other and probably constituted a dialect continuum." @linguistics