吐火罗语即焉耆——龟兹文,二十世纪初发现于新疆库车、焉耆和吐鲁番等地,是一种古老的民族文字。 新疆出土的焉耆——龟兹文文献,绝大部分在二十世纪初都被俄、英、德、日、法等资本主义国家的探险队运回本国。各国语言学家对焉耆——龟兹文先后都进行了不同程度的研究,并发表了不少论文。 此文系美国菲利普·鲍尔迪著,现译成汉文,以飨读者。 Tocharian language that is Yanqi - Qiuciwen, discovered in the early twentieth century in Xinjiang Kuche, Yanqi and Turpan and other places, is an ancient national language. Most of the Yanqi-Qiuci literary writings unearthed in Xinjiang were shipped back to the country by expeditionary groups in capitalist countries such as Russia, Britain, Germany, Japan and France at the beginning of the 20th century. Various national linguists have studied Yanqi-Qiuciwen to varying degrees and published many papers. This article by the United States Phillip Baldie, now translated into Chinese, readers.