Re: Indo-Aryans outside of India

Thanx, it's an excellent introduction. Given that the
Indo-Aryans were pushed by the Iranians. Is there any
evidence of Indo-Aryan in present Iran? Or would the
fact that Indo-Aryan and Proto-iranian were so closely
related completely blot out any traces?

--- "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:

> > 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]
> ********
> You can read a good discussion of the putative
> Pontic Indians by
> our founder, Cyril Babaev, at:
> http://indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/article17.html
> Dan
>
>

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