Extinct ethnic groups

The Tocharians or Tokharians ( ; ) were speakers of the Tocharian languages, a group of Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from the 6th and 7th centuries, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China). The name "Tocharian" was given to these languages in the early 20th century by scholars who identified their speakers with a people known in ancient Greek sources as the Tókharoi (), who inhabited Bactria from the 2nd century BC. This identification is now generally considered erroneous, but the name "Tocharian" remains the most common term for

The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a postulated prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.

The were a group of people who lived in parts of northern Honshū in present-day Japan, especially in the Tōhoku region.

Natangians or Notangians (; ; ; ) was a Prussian clan, which lived in the region of Natangia, an area that is now mostly part of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad Oblast, whereas the southern portion lies in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

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Bayirku (In Chinese chronicles (Ba-yegu / Ba-yegu), in runic inscriptions bajarqu, and in the chronicle collection ''Jami' al-tawarikh'' by Rashid al-Din as barqut (Bargut) is the historical name of an ethnic community repeatedly mentioned in various medieval sources.

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