Indo-European Family of Languages Prepared by Furkhat Checked by Mr. Khuanishbay Introduction

Tocharian

The history of the Tocharian-speaking people is still mysterious. One only knows that they lived in the Taklamakan Desert in Western China.
Most of the Tocharian texts with nothing about the Tocharians themselves involve just translations from well-known Buddhist works and dated between the 6th and the 8th BC.
Two different languages belong to this branch: Tocharian A and Tocharian B.
Remains of the Tocharian A language have only been found in places where Tocharian B documents have also been found, which would suggest that Tocharian A was already extinct, kept alive only as a religious or poetic language, while Tocharian B was the living language used for administrative purposes.

Balto-Slavic

This branch splits into two sub-branches: Baltic and Slavic.

During the late Bronze Age, the Balts' territory may have stretched from around western Poland all the way across to the Ural Mountains.

Afterward, the Balts occupied a small region along the Baltic Sea. Those in the northern part of the territory occupied by the Balts closely contacted with Finnic tribes, whose language was not part of the Indo-European language family.

Finnic speakers borrowed a considerable amount of Baltic words, which suggests that the Balts had an essential cultural prestige in that area.

Albanian

The last branch of Indo-European languages is Albanian that appeared in written form. The origin of Albanian involves two hypotheses.
According to the first, Albanian is a modern descendant of Illyrian, widely spoken in the region during classical times. Since linguists hardly ever know about Illyrian, no one can either deny or confirm it from a linguistic standpoint.
However, from a historical and geographical perspective, it makes sense. Another version makes Albanian be a descendant of Thracian, another lost language, spoken farther east than Illyrian.
Today Albanian is spoken in Albania as the official language, in several other areas of the former Yugoslavia, and also in small enclaves in southern Italy, Greece, and the Republic of Macedonia.