Tocharian Online
Bluestein
59 points
15 comments
August 13, 2026
Related Discussions
Found 5 related stories in 106.1ms across 4,128 title embeddings via pgvector HNSW
- Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages gregsadetsky · 23 pts · July 24, 2026 · 43% similar
- Show HN: OfflineTTS — Free browser-based TTS & STT that runs locally twainyoung · 11 pts · July 19, 2026 · 41% similar
- Voxatron lsferreira42 · 82 pts · July 15, 2026 · 38% similar
- TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work laurentiurad · 71 pts · July 29, 2026 · 37% similar
- T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language AlexeyBrin · 37 pts · August 15, 2026 · 36% similar
Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
falaki
Fun to read this in light of this other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279627
slwvx
The next step is to add Tocharian to Babbel and Duolingo ;-)
contingencies
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.
retrac
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".