Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, Robert S. P. Beekes, Michiel de Vaan, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011, ISBN 978-90-272-1186-6, ... Tocharian Tocharian was only discovered in 1900 in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (formerly written Sinkiang). It largely consists of manuscripts written in an Indic script, with Buddhist texts translated from Sanskrit ...