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Indo - European today is seen as an abbreviation for speakers of Indo-European

family of laguages.Aryans are the people of the Rgveda and Avesta.The Aryans

thus are a subset of Indo-European speakers. There were other Indo-Iranian

speakers who were not Aryans.In the past these terms have been used in the

racial/ethnic sense. But the considered opinion now is to use them as purely

linguistic terms.

Rajesh Kochhar

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INDOLOGY, "Rajesh Kochhar" <rkk@N...> wrote:

> Indo - European today is seen as an abbreviation for speakers of

Indo-European family of laguages.

 

Indo-European, I thought, was the putative ur language from which

many languages from India to Britain have sprung

 

>Aryans are the people of the Rgveda and Avesta.The Aryans thus are a

>subset of Indo-European speakers.

 

 

By the time of Aryas, Indo-Euopean , if it ever existed, was long

dead and gone.

 

 

> There were other Indo-Iranian speakers who were not Aryans.In the

>past these terms have been used in the racial/ethnic sense. But the

>considered opinion now is to use them as purely linguistic terms.

> Rajesh Kochhar

 

It depends in whose past and in whose considered opinion. In Indian

history and literature, the term was /is used as a people (i.e.

themselves) and or cultural ideal