Editing Tocharian languages (section)

==Notable example==
Most of the texts known from the Tocharians are religious, but one noted text is a fragment of a love poem in Tocharian B (manuscript B-496, found in [[Kizil Caves|Kizil]]):<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carling |first=Gerd |website=Georg-August-Universität|place= Göttingen |title=Tocharian: Introduction — Part 3 | at= p.16|type= slide deck |url=https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/aig/doc/TOC-INT-003.pdf}}</ref>

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{{blockquote|
I.<br>
... for a thousand years however, Thou wilt tell the story Thy (...) I announce,<br>
Heretofore there was no human being dearer to me than thee; likewise hereafter there will be no one dearer to me than thee.<br>
Love for thee, affection for thee—breath of all that is life—and they shall not come to an end so long as there lasts life.<br>
III.<br>
Thus did I always think: "I will live well, the whole of my life, with one lover: no force, no deceit."<br>
The god Karma alone knew this thought of mine; so he provoked quarrel; he ripped out my heart from thee;<br>
He led thee afar; tore me apart; made me partake in all sorrows and took away the consolation thou wast.<br>
... my life, spirit, and heart day-by-day...<ref name="DQA">{{Cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Douglas Q.|author1-link = Douglas Q. Adams|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEPjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |chapter=More Thoughts on Tocharian B Prosody | title=Tocharian and Indo-European Studies, vol. 14 |editor2-last=Peyrot |editor2-first=Michaël |editor3-last=Pinault |editor3-first=Georges-Jean | editor3-link=Georges-Jean Pinault |editor1-last=Olander |editor1-first=Thomas |type=''in memoriam'' [[Jens Elmegård Rasmussen]] |date=2013 |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |isbn=978-87-635-4066-7 |pages=26–28}}</ref><ref name="GJP">{{ cite book | language= fr | title=Chrestomathie tokharienne: Textes et grammaire| first= Georges-Jean| last= Pinault| publisher =Peeters| date=2008 | author-link=Georges-Jean Pinault | isbn=9782758400592 | oclc=290435415}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Language Log » Tocharian love poem |url=https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=46597}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://littlebleenhat.github.io/xtb.html| title = World Atlas of Poetic Traditions: Tocharian}}</ref>}}
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{{poemquote|
II.<br>
''(...) Yaltse pikwala (...) watäṃ weṃt no''<br>
''Mā ñi cisa noṣ śomo ñem wnolme lāre tāka mā ra postaṃ cisa lāre mäsketär-ñ.''<br>
''Ciṣṣe laraumñe ciṣṣe ārtañye pelke kalttarr śolämpa ṣṣe mā te stālle śol-wärñai.''<br>
III.<br>
''Taiysu pälskanoym sanai ṣaryompa śāyau karttse-śaulu-wärñai snai tserekwa snai nāte.''<br>
''Yāmor-ñīkte ṣe cau ñi palskāne śarsa tusa ysaly ersate ciṣy araś ñi sälkāte,''<br>
''Wāya ci lauke tsyāra ñiś wetke klyautka-ñ pāke po läklentas ciṣe tsārwo, sampāte.''<br>
''(...) Śaul palsk araśñi, kom kom''<ref name="DQA" /><ref name="GJP" />}}
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[[File:Tocharian B Love Poem.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|none|[[Tocharian B]] Love Poem, manuscript B496 (one of two fragments).]]
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