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To: SunkenCiv

The oldest paper ever discovered was found amoungst these people...it had Tocharoan A written on it. Tocharian is an extinct Indo-European language most closely related to an ancient Celtic line.


6 posted on 05/01/2010 7:08:25 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Tocharian Online dictionary:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/tokol-BF-X.html

This cracked me up:

“amok art, skill”

So to run amok in ancient Celtic was really a highly skilled artform...explains much about my heritage.


9 posted on 05/01/2010 6:45:39 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG)
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