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In·do-Ar·y·an
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ADJECTIVE
Indo-Aryan (adjective)
relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages that are its descendants. Also called Indic.
relating to the hypothetical prehistoric Aryans. See Aryan.
NOUN
Indo-Aryan (noun)
a group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages that are its descendants.
The word Aryan comes from the ancient languages of Iran and India. It was the term that ancient Indo-Iranian-speaking people likely used to identify themselves in the period around 2000 B.C.E. This ancient group's language was one branch of the Indo-European language family. Literally, the word Aryan may mean a noble one.
The “Aryan” Race Early in the 1800s some Europeans began to use the word Aryan to describe a race of people that was supposedly better than other races. To these Europeans, “Aryans” meant white people from northern Europe. They believed that these people had developed most of the world’s best ideas and inventions.
Theory of migration of Aryans to India from outside India
Aryan migration from the Balkan Valley to Persia. The Aryan migration was a very long drawn process spreading over many years and there was no previous planning behind this racial ...
Another branch of Aryans entered the Kabul Valley and Punjab. ...
Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent. The theory of an “Aryan race” appeared in the mid-19th century and remained prevalent until the mid-20th century. According to the hypothesis, those probably light-skinned Aryans ...
Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Indo-Aryans were the Indo-European pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and introduced Proto-Indo-Aryan language. The Indo-Aryan language … See more
Indo-Aryan languages, also called Indic languages, subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. In the early 21st century, Indo-Aryan languages were …
In· do-Ar· y· an ˌin-dō-ˈer-ē-ən. -ˈär-yən. 1. : a member of one of the peoples of the Indian subcontinent speaking an Indo-European language. 2. : one of the early Indo-European …
The Indo-Aryan languages, also known as the Indic languages , are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Indo-Aryan peoples. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. Moreover, apart from the Indian subcontinent, l…
Indo-Aryan languages, or Indic languages, Major subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by more than 800 million …
Nov 10, 2022 · Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran …
In the historical sense, the Indo-Aryans are an ethnic group of the late Bronze Age and Iron Age of South Asia which spoke an Indo-European language, known as Old Indo-Aryan (attested in the Vedic language, which is based on …
Indo-Iranian peoples, also known as Indo-Iranic peoples by scholars, and sometimes as Arya or Aryans from their self-designation, were a group of Indo-European peoples who brought the Indo-Iranian languages, a major branch …
Indo-Aryan refers to the populations speaking an Indo-Aryan language or identifying as Indo-Aryan; they form the predominant group in Northern India. The largest Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic groups are Hindi–Urdu, Bengali, …
The Aryan race is an obsolete historical race concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people of Proto-Indo-European heritage as a racial grouping. The terminology derives …
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