HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Kushanas
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Hunas
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Greeks
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Shakas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Notes: Kushans are also known as Yuechis or Tocharians.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tocharian languages, Tocharian also spelled Tokharian, small group of extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Tarim River Basin (in the centre of the modern Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, China) during the latter half of the 1st millennium ad.
Detailed explanation-3: -Europoid-type “Tarim Mummies” discovered in Xinjiang, China, circa 1800 BC. The Tocharians are described as having full beards, red or blond hair, deep-set blue or green eyes and high noses and with no sign of decline as attested in Chinese sources for nearly a millennium.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tocharian is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, which includes a.o. English, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit.
Detailed explanation-5: -Tocharian definitely isn’t a Celtic language, even though it has some parallels with the Celtic languages. Let me put it this way: if we consider the Italo-Celtic branch to be a valid concept, Tocharian diverged from it before the distinct Italo-Celtic features developed.