ABSTRACT
Now extinct branch of Indo-European consisting of the languages Tocharian A and Tocharian B, handed down in a large number of written documents in the North Indian Brahmi script between the fifth and the tenth centuries; the first documents were found in Central Asia (Tarim valley, 1890). Although Tocharian is the easternmost Indo-European language branch, it has characteristics that are otherwise only found in the western branches ( centum vs satem languages).
