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Many of them indeed believed that Aryan was also the original self-designation used by the prehistoric speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, based on the erroneous assumptions that Sanskrit was the oldest Indo-European language and on the linguistically untenable position that Ériu (Ireland) was related to Arya. [90]
The term Aryan has long been used to denote the Indo-Iranians, because Ā́rya was the self-designation of the ancient speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages, specifically the Iranian and the Indo-Aryan peoples, collectively known as the Indo-Iranians.
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The Indo-Aryans split off around 1800–1600 BCE from the Iranians, [51] whereafter Indo-Aryan groups moved to the Levant , northern India (Vedic people, c. 1500 BCE), and China . [2] The Iranian languages spread throughout the steppes with the Scyths and into Iran with the Medes, Parthians and Persians from c. 800 BCE. [2]
The first man (an Aryan) was created in Tibet and, after living there for some time, the Aryans came down and inhabited India, which was previously empty. [154] The Theosophical Society held that the Aryans were indigenous to India, but that they were also the progenitors of the European civilisation. The Society saw a dichotomy between the ...
The Indo-Aryan migrations [note 1] were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages. [2] These are the predominant languages of today's Bangladesh , Maldives , Nepal , North India , Pakistan , and Sri Lanka .
R1b – M269: is widespread from Ireland to Iran, and is common in highland West Asian populations such as Armenians, Turks and Iranians – with an average frequency of 8.5%. Iranian R1b belongs to the L-23 subclade, [ 158 ] which is an older than the derivative subclade (R1b-M412) which is most common in western Europe.
Map 6: Asia in 323 BC, showing several Iranian peoples located in Central Asia and Europe. Map 7: Scythian cultures of Scythian, Sarmatians and Saka Iranian peoples located in the Western Eurasian steppe (Central Asia and Europe) from ca. 900 BC - 200 AD Map 8: Dahae tribal confederation Map 9: Roxolani, Siraces and Aorsi in the 4th century BC.