HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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a speech group
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an ethnic group
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a nomadic group
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a supporter race
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Detailed explanation-1: -Accordingly, the term ‘Aryan’ came to refer in scholarship to the Indo-Iranian languages, and, by extension, to the native speakers of the Proto-Indo-Iranian language, the prehistoric Indo-Iranian peoples.
Detailed explanation-2: -Origins of the Term Aryan Nineteenth-century European scholars used the term Aryan to identify the Indo-European or Indo-Germanic peoples who settled throughout India, Persia (Iran), and Europe thousands of years earlier.
Detailed explanation-3: -Notes: The term Aryan denotes a linguistic group and not a race. Their language Vedic Sanskrit has definite relationship with major languages of Europe and Asia. Scholars call this group of languages as Indo-European and the people speaking these languages as Indo-Europeans or Indo-Aryans.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.