From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 53439
Date: 2008-02-16
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> 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]