Tokarian
Tokarian is a term that may refer to the Tocharians, an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in what is today Xinjiang, China, and to their languages. In some older or alternate transliterations, Tokarian is used as the spelling for these subjects.
In linguistics, the Tocharian languages (also sometimes spelled Tocharian or Tokharian in early sources) comprise Tocharian
Historically, the Tocharians lived along the northern rim of the Tarim Basin and interacted with neighboring
Modern usage predominantly uses Tocharian; Tokarian is seldom used in contemporary linguistic literature, except in historical
See also: Tocharian languages; Tarim Basin; Silk Road; Tocharians (ethnonym).