I know about the Mitanni Indo-Aryans but does anyone
know anything about the Sindes and Maeotes of the
Black Sea?
Are they considered Indo-Aryan just because of the
name Sindes? Or is there anything to back this up?
BTW: I thought the term Sind- originally referred to
the Indus and meant "river"
For Hellenistic times, Oleg N. Trubachev (1999;
elaborating on a hypothesis by Kretschmer 1944)
suggests that there were Indo-Aryan speakers in the
Pontic steppe. The Maeotes and the Sindes, the latter
also known as "Indoi" and described by Hesychius as an
"an Indian people".[7]
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