The Tocharian are an ancient people in Central Asia. Originally Tarim basin town-dwellers, whose culture and speech were absorbed by the Altaian nomad Yueh-chi, their combined migration to the upper Oxus region of Tocharistan, and afterwards to Bactria, resulted in the Indo-Scyth Kushan kingdom. Lecoq and Stein brought from the Turfan documents in ... Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/CXTA.HTM
noun a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D. Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974