# An unrelated local language, now lost, later replaced.

> Still possible: An unrelated local language, now lost, later replaced.

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Answer · Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)

# An unrelated local language, now lost, later replaced.

An unrelated local language, now lost, later replaced.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Tocharian appears in the basin with later admixed populations.

## What would rule it out

- Evidence of Indo-European speech in the Xiaohe horizon.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[The founders were a genetically isolated local population.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/evidence/EVD0D90EB46703Q/the-founders-were-a-genetically-isolated-local-population)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[What language did the Bronze Age Tarim people speak?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/questions/QST0D90E3ST5JQ5/what-language-did-the-bronze-age-tarim-people-speak)

Part of [Where did the people buried in the earliest Tarim Basin cemeteries come from?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/tarim-mummies/questions/QST0D90E32C1HN0/where-did-the-people-buried-in-the-earliest-tarim-basin)

Open3 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). An unrelated local language, now lost, later replaced. [Answer ANS0D90EAWC3N06]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D90EAWC3N06
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