Tochari

The Tochari (; Latin: , from the Ancient Greek exonym Tókharoi), also called the Tukharas () or Tukhars (from the Sanskrit exonym Tukhāra [stem form] and the Classical Persian exonym Tukhār or Ṭukhār [singular]), were an ancient people of Bactria, a historical region in Central Asia roughly corresponding to northern Afghanistan and parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

The Tochari were sometimes thought to be a branch of the Turkic peoples, but are now generally considered to have been part of the Yuezhi, a group of Indo-European-speaking tribes mentioned by Chinese sources. The Tochari settled in the eastern parts of Bactria in the 1st century BCE.