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Indo-Aryan refers to:
  • Indo-Aryan languages
    Indo-Aryan languages

    The Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages family.SIL International in a 2005 estimate counted a total of 209 varieties, the largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani language , Bangla language , Punjabi language , Marathi , Gujarati language , Nepali language , Oriya language , Sindhi language , Sinhal...
  • Indo-Aryan migration
    Indo-Aryan migration

    Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discuss scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas of settlement ....
    , a supposition that holds that the Indo-Aryans migrated to India.
  • Indigenous Aryans
    Indigenous Aryans

    The notion of Indigenous Aryans posits that speakers of Indo-Aryan languages are ":wikt:indigenous" to the Indian subcontinent. It is widespread in Hindu nationalism, and can take various forms, all of them emphasizing that Vedic Sanskrit and Vedism are native to Northern India....
    , a theory that holds that the Indo-Aryans are native to India.
  • Indo-Aryans
    Indo-Aryans

    Indo-Aryan is an ethno-linguistic term referring to the wide collection of peoples united as native speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages of the family of Indo-European languages....
    , the various peoples speaking these languages


See also

  • Indo-European
    Indo-European

    Indo-European may refer to:* Indo-European languages* Indo-European people, peoples speaking an Indo-European language** Aryan race, a 19th-century term for Indo-European speakers...
  • Indo-Iranian
    Indo-Iranian

    Indo-Iranian can refer to:* Indo-Iranian languages* Prehistoric Indo-Iranians * Indo-European languages* Proto-Indo-Iranian religion* Proto-Indo-Iranian language...
  • Aryan
    Aryan

    Aryan is an English language loanword. As the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states at the beginning of its definition, "[it] is one of the ironies of history that Aryan, a word nowadays referring to the blond-haired, blue-eyed physical ideal of Nazi Germany, originally referred to a people who looked vastly di...
  • Arya
    Arya

    Arya is an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition.Outside the Iranian world there is also evidence of non-single term "arya-"....