Indo-European vs Tocharian

Tocharian vs Indo-European

Indo-European and Tocharian both are nouns.

Indo-European is an adjective but Tocharian is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Indo-European	Yes	Yes	No	No
Tocharian	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Tocharian is a hyponym of Indo-European; that is, Tocharian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Indo-European:

Indo-European: the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
Tocharian: a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.

Other hyponyms of Indo-European include PIE, Proto-Indo European, Proto-Indo European language, Albanian, Albanian language, Armenian, Armenian language, Illyrian, Thraco-Phrygian, Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic, Germanic, Germanic language, Celtic, Celtic language, Italic, Italic language, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian language, Anatolian, Anatolian language, Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language, Centum language.

Indo-European (noun)	Tocharian (noun)
the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia	a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

Indo-European (adjective)	Tocharian (adjective)
of or relating to the former Indo-European people
of or relating to the Indo-European language family

Difference between Indo-European and Tocharian

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