The Tocharian languages were a branch of the Indo-European languages. They are now extinct. They were spoken on the northern side of the Tarim Basin (now in Xinjiang, China ). Writing was found from around the 5th century to the 8th century AD. There were three known languages in the branch, named A, B and C.

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Estudos indo-europeus. As línguas tocarianas ou tocárias constituem um dos ramos mais obscuros da família indo-europeia, já extinto. Dois idiomas pertencentes ao ramo são hoje conhecidos, o tocariano A e o tocariano B, a partir de manuscritos criados entre os séculos V e VIII na Bacia do Tarim, na Ásia Central, no território ...

The Tocharian languages are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family , most of which has been handed down in written documents from the second half of the 1st millennium AD in the Tarim Basin in what is now the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang . Since 1890, more than 7600 fragments of manuscripts, mainly from the 5th to 8th ...

The Tocharians or Tokharians were Indo-European speaking peoples who inhabited oasis city-states on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern Xinjiang, China).Medieval documents attest to two language, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. From the 8th century AD, the Uyghurs, speakers of a Turkic language, settled in the region and the Tocharian languages became extinct.