Tocharians

The Tocharians (Traditional Chinese: 吐火羅人) were an ancient people who lived in the Tarim Basin. The Tocharians spoke an Indo-European language called the Tocharian.^[1][2] The region they lived in is closer to the East Asia than any other Indo-European-speaking regions.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1}
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2. ↑ Tocharian Online: Series Introduction Archived 2015-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum, University of Texas at Austin.