Re: Indika
| From: | Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 9:24 |
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It seems the original Indo-Europeans called themselves something like Arya.
India was known as Aryavarta (Land of Aryas) more than 2000 years ago. Iran
is derived from aaryaan. Eire (Ireland) also seems to be derived from the
same root as Arya. I read this in a book.
As I told you, IndoIranian is a branch of IE. II has two (ot three)
subbranches - Indo-Aryan, Iranian. Some regard Dardic as a 3rd branch.
Others regard Dardic as part of Ind-Aryan.
Nikhil
----- Original Message -----
From: "BP Jonsson" <bpj@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Indika
Jón frá Steinbergum skrifadi:
>Hm. I always thought that Aryan = Indo-Iranian. In which case Indo-Aryan
would
>be a pleonasm. Anyway, both "Aryan" and "Indo-Germanic" are obsolete, I
>believe, for obvious reasons.
As used by IEnists "Aryan" was a synonym for "Indo-Iranian", but as used in
India it is a synonym of "Indo-Aryan" -- a term which is incidentally not
obsolete. Admittedly confusing! I've even come across "Irano-Aryan",
which seems tautologous, since _Iran_ is from *aaryaana.
/BP 8^)
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