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	The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VII: Bronze Age in Eurasia
		The Indo Iranians consist of the Indo Aryans whom HOLLIS relates to the Parya Indic People and the Iranians.
		The Indo Scythians are related to the Saka, a nomadic people of the steppelands north of the Iranian plateau, and to the Yueh Chih (also known as Tocharian) a people in Central Asia (Xingjang) during the ?first millennium AD until overrun by Uighurs.
		The Nuristani branch of the Indo Iranian subfamily of the Indo European language family was not detailed by Alexeev.
	www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/ChapterVII.html (12823 words)

	Iranians
		The Iranian language group is part of a larger Indo-Iranian language subfamily and accounts for some of the oldest-recorded Indo-European languages.
		The Iranian calendar was revised in the 11th century by a panel of scientists including Omar Khayyam, who was one of the foremost mathematicians and astronomers of his time, though he is better known in the West today for his poetry.
		An Iranian was called Persian in the English language prior to 1936, but the people of Iran has always used the name Iranian for themselves from the ancient times onward.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/105/iranians.html (969 words)

	The Indo-European Homeland
		The evidence of the oldest literary records of the Indo-European family of languages, the Rigveda and the Avesta, as we have seen, clearly and unambiguously depicts a movement of the “Indo-Iranians” from the east to the west and northwest.
		And Central Asia and Afghanistan, which, according to the standard theory, is the route by which the Indoaryans migrated into India, turns out to be the route by which the Iranians migrated westwards and northwards.
		But this similarity between Greek and Italic is because “when Indo-European languages were brought to Mediterranean people unfamiliar with voiced aspirated stops, this element brought about the process of unvoicing”,
	www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm (969 words)

	Iranians
		Environmental factors aside, for many Iranians Vancouver represents a safe haven, far from both the political turmoil that brought the first major influx of immigrants here after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and the post-revolutionary economic hardship and restrictions on personal freedoms that have encouraged a wave of emigration since the end of the 1980s.
		As there is only one Shia (the predominant form of Islam in Iran) mosque in the Vancouver area- -the mosque in Richmond mainly frequented by Indo-Pakistani Muslims--efforts are underway to establish a new mosque where Farsi-speaking Muslims can hear sermons in their own language.
		Iranian architects like Foad Rafii, who designed the first buildings constructed on the north shore of False Creek after Expo 86 and the new mixed-use Woodward's building Downtown, have made and are continuing to make a significant impact on the changing face of Vancouver.
	www.discovervancouver.com /GVB/vancouver-iranians.asp (855 words)

	Indo-European Migrations: an article by Cyril Babaev
		There are some grounds which make linguists think that Iranians were first to move apart, and Indo-Aryans went further, from Iran to Central Asia, and there separated from the common Indo-European wave and turned south-east, directly to India.
		Linguists discovered several obvious examples of Anatolian substratum lexics in Greece and on the Aegean Islands, and recently the famous pre-Hellenic suffixes -nt- and -nth- (seen in the Greek place names like Korinthos, Tyrinthos, Olinphos, were explained as Anatolian, moreover, Luwian.
		Mutual linguistic contacts between languages here result in a large list of common stems and words we already mentioned in our previous research works.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /archive/article15.html (855 words)

	Who were Illyrians
		From there, some Iranians migrated to the south and west, the Indo-Aryans to the south and east.
		From geographical references in the earliest Indo-Aryan literary document, the Rigveda, it is clear that the earliest settlement of Indo-Aryans was in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent.
		Their expansions and migrations from the 2nd century BC onward are largely recorded in history.
	www.geocities.com /iliria1 (15583 words)

	THE ARYAN QUESTION REVISITED
		There is a closeness then of old Iranian and Indo Aryan, a closeness which is also expressed in the fact that the only two Indo European speaking cultures that have the cult of the soma plant, which is called the haoma in the Avestan, are the Iranians and the Indians.
		Indo aryan, Old iranian simply to distinguish it from middle Iranian and new Iranian the same way as Indo aryan is distinguished from middle Indo aryan and new Indo Aryan.
		The term Aryan as it is used in English with a capital 'A' was invented in the nineteenth century.
	members.tripod.com /ascjnu/aryan.html (12454 words)

	Refuting Arthur Kemp's March of the Titans
		The word Iran itself means "the Land of Aryans" and Indians and Iranians consider their ethnicity and stock as being solely Aryan.
		The Cro-Magnoid European of Grimaldi and the Bushman-Hottentot look like the modern Black man. Aurignacian culture was brought into Western Europe from Africa were termed Neanthriopic.
		Minoan Crete, the forerunner of Greek civilization, is the earliest known European high-culture.
	www.stewartsynopsis.com /refuting_the_march_of_the_titans.htm (886 words)

	Social Structure of the Indo Europeans
		This would suggest that the term was not inherited from PIE, but rather became transferred among the Indo-Iranians during their times of conflict with each other.
		From them, he suggested that PIE society was split into three basic functions of free man. The first was the priestly class, responsible for presiding over the religious practices of the people.
		It is possible that this focus of three generations is an inheritance from PIE not in the generations themselves, but in the simple value placed in the number three.
	www.reefdamsel.com /jcorner/school/indoeuropean.htm (886 words)

	The Indo-European Homeland
		These two branches, which remained behind in Central Asia, it is possible, retained contact with the Indoaryans and Iranians further south: the fact that Hittite mythology is the only mythology, outside the Indo-Iranian cultural world, which mentions Indra (as Inar) may be evidence of such contacts.
		However, some authors call it the Battle Axe culture because stone battle axes were frequently placed in burials The expansion of the Corded Ware cultural variants throughout central, eastern and northern Europe has been construed as the most likely scenario for the origin and dispersal of PIE (Proto-Indo-European) language and culture.”
		There is no archaeological link with any other Indo European culture outside India.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm (11268 words)

	Indo Iranian: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		...Aryans of India and the Iranians at later dates.
		In Quest of the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate
		Indo Iranian: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/indo_iranian.jsp (2542 words)

	Indo-European Project
		(One might say, with perhaps a bit of stretching, that we are talking about “white people” here.) Interestingly, modern day Iranians, some Hindus, and many other people of Central Asia are also related to the proto Indo-Europeans.
		Our inquiry began around 6000-4000 BCE, with the postulated existence, based on grave sites and language study, of a tribe known as proto Indo-Europeans.
		This project is an outgrowth of the “Early Europeans” class at Marin Academy in the Spring of 2004.
	courses.ma.org /History/EarlyEuropeans/page.html (396 words)

	Review of "In Quest of Our Linguistic Ancestors: The Elusive Origins of the Indo-Europeans"
		Moving on to the Indo-Iranians, we see that the steppe groups may have been described as fair-headed, while the creators of civilization in Persia and India were indubitably brunet.
		This is not to imply that there was not a Proto-Indo-European homeland, language and people, simply that the methodology for finding it based on linguistics is still rather crude.
		Thus, Day fails to demonstrate (i) that the upper Roman classes were of "northern European physical type" in the sense that they were different from modern Italians in pigmentation, (ii) that they were of "northern European physical type" in all aspects of their phenotype, including morphology.
	www.geocities.com /dienekesp2/day (3459 words)

	Forums - Dera Bugti Carnage is Part of the Army Strategy to Crush Smaller Provinces
		So white Europeans lost they changed the term to "Proto-Indo-Iranians" the changed European to Iranian because they came from a place called old Iran or Aryana (the land of Aryans) half of Afghanistan and Iran.
		Indians dont take pride in calling themselves of European orgin, they are not an offshoot of Arabs as well.
		The theory that Aryans came from Persia too is wrong for there is no similarity between northen Indian-subcontenet and Persia and the first Persian who came to India were from Turkey and not from Iran.
	www.satribune.com /thread.jsp?forum=3&thread=2412 (3059 words)

	Review of “In Quest of Our Linguistic Ancestors: The Elusive Origins of the Indo-Europeans”
		Moving on to the Indo-Iranians, we see that the steppe groups may have been described as fair-headed, while the creators of civilization in Persia and India were indubitably brunet.
		This is not to imply that there was not a Proto-Indo-European homeland, language and people, simply that the methodology for finding it based on linguistics is still rather crude.
		Thus, Day fails to demonstrate (i) that the upper Roman classes were of “northern European physical type” in the sense that they were different from modern Italians in pigmentation, (ii) that they were of “northern European physical type” in all aspects of their phenotype, including morphology.
	www.angeltowns.net /membercenter/100/dienekes/articles/johnvday (3059 words)

	The Indo-European Homeland
		The evidence of the oldest literary records of the Indo-European family of languages, the Rigveda and the Avesta, as we have seen, clearly and unambiguously depicts a movement of the “Indo-Iranians” from the east to the west and northwest.
		But this similarity between Greek and Italic is because “when Indo-European languages were brought to Mediterranean people unfamiliar with voiced aspirated stops, this element brought about the process of unvoicing”,
		Other similarities between languages or branches which lie on opposite sides of the above dividing line are recognizable as phenomena which took place after the concerned branches had reached their historical habitats, and do not, therefore, throw any light on the location of the original homeland or the migration-schedule of the branches.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm (11268 words)

	The Indo-European Homeland
		The evidence of the oldest literary records of the Indo-European family of languages, the Rigveda and the Avesta, as we have seen, clearly and unambiguously depicts a movement of the “Indo-Iranians” from the east to the west and northwest.
		However, this archaeological phenomenon “does not explain the presence of Indo-Europeans in Asia, Greece and Anatolia”.
		The point of dispersal for each family is the locus of its proto-homeland, and this locus eventually is engulfed by the next entering language.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm (11268 words)

	Kurds, Kurdistan and Kurdish Language: Indo-Iranian Language
		Kurdish is a member of the Indo-Iranian language group which is a branch of the Indo-European family, the largest language family in the world.
		Before the emergence of Islam most of the Kurds (and Iranians) embraced Zoroastrianism and some were Christians and Jews.
		The chief towns of the region are Kermanshah (capital of Kermanshahan province, west Iran, a major city of Iranian Kurdistan), Sanandaj (capital of Kurdistan Iranian province), and Ilam (capital of Ilam province)(Iran); Irbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Kirkuk (Iraq); Divarbakir, Erzurum, and Van (Turkey); and Qamishle (Syria).
	www.nouruzi.itgo.com /kurd.html (11268 words)

	Aryan Details, Meaning Aryan Article and Explanation Guide
		At any rate, modern India is divided into two main language families, one Indo-European, its speakers possibly linguistic descendants of invading Aryans, and the other Dravidian, its speakers possibly linguistic descendants of the Harappans.
		One of the meanings of this term in modern English refers to a hypothetical single group of people who spoke the parent language of the Indo-European languages (the people known as Proto-Indo-Europeans).
		aryo- as the name of a people, the "Aryans", is only attested in India and Persia, but the root is well known from other languages in the Indo*-European world, e.g.
	www.e-paranoids.com /a/ar/aryan.html (11268 words)

	The Homeland of Indo-European Languages and Culture: Some Thoughts
		In the first place, if the Europeans, on the one hand, and the Indo-Iranians, on the other, had once lived together as agriculturists in Anatolia, they ought to have a common vocabulary for agricultural items, which unfortunately is not the case.
		The presence of a few Dravidian words in the Vedas can be explained by an adstratum and not necessarily by a substratum.
		Discounting this equation, Renfrew (1999: 268) holds that on the European scene mounted warriors appear only as late as the turn of the second-first millennia BCE and these could in no case have been Gimbutas’s Kurgan warriors predating the facts by some 3,000 years.
	www.geocities.com /ifihhome/articles/bbl001.html (2921 words)

	sanskrit7
		These are from the oldest strata of the language indicating that it was learned while the Iranians' ancestors had not yet left eastern Europe for Asia.
		Even though Hungarian belongs to the Uralic languages, Hungarian shares more than the Indo-European languages with ancient Iranic tongues of which (Indo-Aryan) Sanskrit is but one derivative.
		Some of the shared words however are not really Iranian in origin as claimed today but are loan words into Iranian from the ancient languages of Iran like Elamite and early Dravidian which again share many words with early Uralic languages especially with Hungarian.
	member.melbpc.org.au /~tmajlath/sanskrit7.html (2921 words)

	The Indo-European Homeland
		These two branches, which remained behind in Central Asia, it is possible, retained contact with the Indoaryans and Iranians further south: the fact that Hittite mythology is the only mythology, outside the Indo-Iranian cultural world, which mentions Indra (as Inar) may be evidence of such contacts.
		This is because both, the word DAsa and the word Arya, refer to broad secular or tribal entities, while the word Dasyu refers to priestly entities: thus, one would generally say “both Christians and Muslims”, or “both padres and mullahs”, but not “both Christians and mullahs” or “both Muslims and padres”.
		The words Druh/Drugh/Drogha occur throughout the Rigveda in the sense of “demon” or “enemy”.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm (11268 words)

	The Indo-European Homeland
		These two branches, which remained behind in Central Asia, it is possible, retained contact with the Indoaryans and Iranians further south: the fact that Hittite mythology is the only mythology, outside the Indo-Iranian cultural world, which mentions Indra (as Inar) may be evidence of such contacts.
		However, some authors call it the Battle Axe culture because stone battle axes were frequently placed in burials The expansion of the Corded Ware cultural variants throughout central, eastern and northern Europe has been construed as the most likely scenario for the origin and dispersal of PIE (Proto-Indo-European) language and culture.”
		There is no archaeological link with any other Indo European culture outside India.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm (11268 words)

	The common Indoeuropean heritage of Welsh and Hindi Nerdshift
		The Proto-Indoeuropean is a hypothetical language spoken by the common ancestors of most Europeans, Iranians and Indians: the Indoeuropeans.
		Mathur contacted a professional linguist, Dr. Colin H. Williams, who ascribed the similarities to the common heritage of the Welsh and Hindi languages: the Proto-Indoeuropean language.
		Image credits: The maps showing the spread of Indoeuropean languages over time were created by Dieter A. Bachmann and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.
	portal.wikinerds.org /welsh-hindi-indoeuropean-2005mar (1281 words)

	The Indo-European Homeland
		These two branches, which remained behind in Central Asia, it is possible, retained contact with the Indoaryans and Iranians further south: the fact that Hittite mythology is the only mythology, outside the Indo-Iranian cultural world, which mentions Indra (as Inar) may be evidence of such contacts.
		Baltic and Slavonic: “The general resemblance of Baltic and Slavic is so apparent that no-one challenges the notion of a period of common development Baltic and Slavic are the descendants of almost identical Indo-European dialects.
		There is no archaeological link with any other Indo European culture outside India.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/rig/ch7.htm (11268 words)

	sanskrit2
		Even though Hungarian belongs to the Uralic languages, Hungarian shares more than the Indo-European languages with ancient Iranic tongues of which (Indo-Aryan) Sanskrit is but one derivative.
		These are from the oldest strata of the language indicating that it was learned while the Iranians' ancestors had not yet left eastern Europe for Asia.
		Some of the shared words however are not really Iranian in origin as claimed today but are loan words into Iranian from the ancient languages of Iran like Elamite and early Dravidian which again share many words with early Uralic languages especially with Hungarian.
	member.melbpc.org.au /~tmajlath/sanskrit2.html (11268 words)

	sanskrit8
		These are from the oldest strata of the language indicating that it was learned while the Iranians' ancestors had not yet left eastern Europe for Asia.
		Since most domesticated plants are not common in distant Indo-European languages, it is unlikely that they practiced agriculture before their separation and resettlement.
		The most central and best supported origin is from near the northern shores of the Black Sea.
	member.melbpc.org.au /~tmajlath/sanskrit8.html (11268 words)

	Indo-Iranians - world history
		By ca2500, the Indo-Aryans had probably branched off as a group or groups different from the Indo-Iranians, who remained in the steppes and migrated as far as the modern Chinese province of Gansu.
		Around 1500, there is archaeological evidence for a culture of central Asia called Andronovo which is associated with the Indo-Iranians.
		At the time also a probably proto-Slavic culture existed along the middle Dniester river, which might have been the western limit of the Indo-Iranians.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /i/indoIranians.html (11268 words)

	Summary
		In determining the routes followed by the Indo-Iranians as they migrated away from their original homeland, precedence is taken by the data reflecting their spiritual culture, and not by the characteristics of their ware and similar characteristics.
		This concerns the establishment of systematically traced typologicalseries between the culture of the Sakas and the Sauromatians (unquestionably Iranian speaking peoples) and the antecedent timber-grave and Andronovo cultures, which allows us to regard them as genetically linked and thus to surmise that the bearers of the two latter cultures were Indo-Iranians.
		The absence in the area of the cult of the pig, inherent in other Indo-European cultures, and the wide use of the two-humped camel (Camelus bactrianus) and its cult also favor the Indo-Iranian attribution of these cultures.
	www.silk-road.com /newsletter/volumeonenumberone/summary.html (11268 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vedic religion
		Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian Sauma) was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians*, and the later Vedic and Iranian cultures.
		The Soma cult described in the Rigveda, descended from a common Indo-Iranian practice.
		Strong traces of a common Indo-Iranian religion remain visible, especially in the Soma cult and the fire worship also preserved in Zoroastrianism.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vedic-religion (3977 words)

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