To: Cronos
Those all look like Indo-European languages. Do they call them Aryan where you are from? Never took many linguistic classes, so maybe I am mixed up here.
I always thought of the Aryans as that group who swept through the Indian subcontinent pushing the Dravidians towards the south and east.
72 posted on
07/07/2004 9:25:13 AM PDT by
Betis70
To: Betis70
Those all look like Indo-European languages. Do they call them Aryan where you are from? Never took many linguistic classes, so maybe I am mixed up here.
Indo-European is interchangeable with Aryan IMHO. Arya is taken from the Sanskrit-Avestan word for noble man. The Aryans/Indo-Europeans did move into India driving another Caucasian group, the Dravidians, to the south. At the same time they moved west into Anatolia, to form the Mittani and Hittite 'empires'. They then moved further west into Europe
86 posted on
07/07/2004 3:33:27 PM PDT by
Cronos
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