The Tocharians or Tokharians (US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -⁠KAR-; [5] UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən) [6] were speakers of the Tocharian languages, a group of Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from the 6th and 7th centuries, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China). [7]...

According to Greek and Latin historical sources, the Tocharoi (Greek Tócharoi, Latin Tochari, Sanskrit tukhāra) inhabited the basin of the upper Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) in the 2nd century Bc, having been driven there from an earlier home…

Tocharian languages, small group of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Tarim River Basin (in the centre of the modern Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, China) during the latter half of the 1st millennium ad.

The Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -⁠KAR-; [2] UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən), [3] also known as the Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean languages, are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, the Tocharians. [4] .

Tocharian denotes two closely related languages of the Indo-European family, denoted simply Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Though quite similar, Tocharian A and B are now considered by most scholars to be two distinct languages, and not merely two dialects of one common language.

Tokharistan (formed from "Tokhara" and the suffix -stan meaning "place of" in Persian) is a historical name used by Islamic sources in the early Middle Ages to refer to the area which was known as Bactria in Ancient Greek sources. [4]

Tocharian is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family which was spoken in oases on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin, an area which is now part of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

Remains of an Indo-European language generally referred to as Tochari-an were found in the Tarim Basin, a large arid lowland located in present-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Republic (north of India, northeast of the Tibetan plateau, formerly called ‘Chinese Turkestan’). Tocharian texts are dated to between 500 and 840 CE.

The meaning of TOCHARI is the Tocharian people.

The Tocharians were the Tocharian -speaking inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, making them the easternmost speakers of an Indo-European language in antiquity. The term Tocharian has a somewhat complicated history. It is based on the ethnonym Tokharoi ( Greek Τόχαροι) used by Greek historians (e.g. Ptolemy VI, 11, 6).