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  1. The Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, -⁠KAR-; [3] UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən), [4] 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 ...

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    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, Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from around AD 400 to 1200, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China). [7] .

  3. 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.

  4. The Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (US: / toʊˈkɛəriənˌ - ˈkɑːr -/ toh-KAIR-ee-ən, - ⁠ KAR-; UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / to-KAR-ee-ən), 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.

  5. The Tocharian script, [7] also known as Central Asian slanting Gupta script or North Turkestan Brāhmī, [8] is an abugida which uses a system of diacritical marks to associate vowels with consonant symbols. Part of the Brahmic scripts, it is a version of the Indian Brahmi script.

  6. 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.

  7. Proto-Tocharian, also spelled Proto-Tokharian (/ təˈkɛəriən / or / təˈkɑːriən /), is the reconstructed proto-language of the extinct Tocharian branch of the Indo-European languages.

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