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Tocharians

an ancient Indo-European ethnic group that lived around the Tarim Basin

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]

Fragment of a painting depicting two Tocharian ladies, found in the Silk Road oasis town of Miran.
Depiction of Tocharians on a mural.
Tocharian B Love Poem B-496. Translation in Krause and Thomas 1960–64:2.72 and Pinault 2008:32 II.
Tocharian languages - A, B, C in the Tarim Basin. Tarim oasis towns are given as listed in the Book of Han (c. 2nd century BC.) Areas of the squares are proportional to population.
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1
    • Lane, George S. (1971). "Tocharian: Indo-European and Non-Indo-European Relationships". Indo-European and Indo-Europeans. University of Pennsylvania Press. doi:10.9783/9781512801200-007. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
    • Adams, Douglas Q. (1984). "The Position of Tocharian among the Other Indo-European Languages". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 104 (3). American Oriental Society: 395–402. doi:10.2307/601651. JSTOR 601651. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
    • "Tocharian languages | Ancient Indo-European Dialects". Britannica. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
    • Milligan, Mark (April 1, 2022). "5,000-year population history of Xinjiang brought to light in DNA study". HeritageDaily. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
    • Wieczorek, Oliver; Malzahn, Melanie (January 4, 2024). "Exploring an extinct society through the lens of Habitus-Field theory and the Tocharian text corpus". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11 (56). Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  2. ↑ Tocharian Online: Series Introduction Archived 2015-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum, University of Texas at Austin.
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