Tocharians

Fragment of a painting depicting two Tocharian ladies, found in the Silk Road oasis town of Miran.
Depiction of Tocharians on a mural.
Tocharian B Love Poem B-496. Translation in Krause and Thomas 1960–64:2.72 and Pinault 2008:32 II.
Tocharian languages - A, B, C in the Tarim Basin. Tarim oasis towns are given as listed in the Book of Han (c. 2nd century BC.) Areas of the squares are proportional to population.

The Tocharians (Traditional Chinese: 吐火羅人) were an ancient people who lived in the Tarim Basin. The Tocharians spoke an Indo-European language called the Tocharian.[1][2] The region they lived in is closer to the East Asia than any other Indo-European-speaking regions.[1]

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  2. Tocharian Online: Series Introduction Archived 2015-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum, University of Texas at Austin.