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Tocharians
The
Tocharians
or
Tokharians
( or ) were
Indo-European peoples
who inhabited the medieval oasis city-states on the northern edge of the
Tarim Basin
(modern
Xinjiang
,
China
) in ancient times. Their
Tocharian languages
, a branch of the
Indo-European family
, are known from manuscripts from the 6th to 8th centuries AD, after which they were supplanted by the
Turkic languages
of the
Uyghur
tribes.
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