Tocharian Languages
There has long been an unproven hypothesis that an ancestor of Tocharian was spoken by the people of the Tarim Basin mummies [1].<p>The mummies appear to have a mixture of ancestry from West, South, and East Asia, but there is nothing beyond conjecture to link them to the Tocharian languages, which are only attested several thousand years later than the mummies were interred.<p>Tocharian itself is an Indo European language, but despite its written remains being largely Buddhist translations from Sanskrit (another Indo European language) in a Brahmic script, it isn&#x27;t particularly closely related to Sanskritic languages, nor to Western Indo-European languages (Greek, Latin, Germanic, Slavic).  It has a very different nominal case system than Indo-European languages of similar antiquity [2], and is thought to be an early offshoot from Proto Indo European, similar (and perhaps contemporary) to Hittite.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tarim_mummies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tarim_mummies</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tocharian_languages#Nouns" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tocharian_languages#Nouns</a>