Original sentence: 1925), based on textual studies.It was a nomadic federation of unknown ethnic and linguistic origin which became for a couple of centuries the second greatest power in Transoxiana after the Yuezhi.Kangju or K'ang-chü () was the Chinese name of an ancient people and kingdom in Central Asia.Recent scholars tend to consider them Iranian or Tocharian, or  Turkic in origin.The ethnicity of the Kangju people was initially thought to be Turkic by Shiratori Kurakichi (c
Edited sentence: In recent years it has been suggested that they could have been Tocharians.Kangju ) was the Chinese name of an ancient semi-nomadic people and kingdom in Central Asia which became for a couple of centuries the second greatest power in Transoxiana after the Yuezhi.The Kangju are generally believed to have been the same as the Iranian Sogdians