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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
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> 1. the early habitat of Proto-Indo-Iranians was in an area close to
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> 2. these Proto-Indo-Iranians called themselves *arya-.
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> Hope this helps,
> Francesco
"Indo-Iranian" is a linguistic idea. It does not refer to any actual
people who can be traced back into history. See Lamberg-Karlovsky
2005.pdf and Proto-Indo-European Reality and reconstruction.pdf
Cladistic analysis by Dyen Kruskal Black 1992.pdf in the files section
did not find any support for the "Indo-Iranian" family. The Indian
and Iraniann langauges are interspersed by Green and Armenian. It is
M. Kelkar