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- Bit of trivia: the Chinese word for honey 蜜 (Mandarin mì, Cantonese mat6, Japanese mitsu) may be a borrowing from Tocharian, cognate with the English word "mead".by retrac
- Check out the cognates for arrow, car (chariot) and horse (mare)
Old school tech exchange, basically
- The next step is to add Tocharian to Babbel and Duolingo ;-)by slwvx
- Before that, it might be a good idea to get the Tocharian script into Unicode. It's on the roadmap: https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/ Unclear whether something specific is holding it up, or just nobody pushing it through the process.by yorwba
- Wait wait wait: so Xinjiang is an inalienable part of Europe?
For those interested in an overview of the history of the area in an historic dramatic frame of reference I can recommend the group of short stories published as Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield.
- Now that's an interesting take. Gives "old continent" a whole new meaning ...by Bluestein
- > Wait wait wait: so Xinjiang is an inalienable part of Europe
Only in the sense that Europe is an inalienable part of India.
by BigTTYGothGF - Fun to read this in light of this other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279627by falaki