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Indo-European: Anatolian and Tocharian (Extinct Branches)

Anatolian, the branch that includes Hittite, the earliest attested Indo-European language, and Tocharian, an entirely separate extinct branch once spoken far to the east in the Tarim Basin of what is now western China, are grouped together here as the two Indo-European branches that died out completely in antiquity, leaving no modern descendants, rather than being split into groups of one or two members each. This child group, under Indo-European Branches, holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Anatolian, Hittite or Tocharian.

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Both constituent branches, Anatolian and Tocharian, are independently confirmed extinct by their own articles.
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Anatolia and the Tarim Basin (historical) 1
Indo-European: Anatolian and Tocharian (Extinct Branches)
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1. Wikipedia: Anatolian Languages
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    The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia (modern Turkey).
  • Lead section, extinction sentence
    The Anatolian languages are an extinct branch of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Anatolia (modern Turkey).
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Wikipedia: Tocharian Languages
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The Tocharian languages, also known as the Agni-Kuci, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean languages, are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, the Tocharians.
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