Tocharians

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The Tocharians or Tokharians (US: toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -⁠KAR-; UK: to-KAR-ee-ən) 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).

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