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Jan 29, 2011 · Updated 16 August 2019. The term 'Aryan' or 'Arya' appears to be the oldest one known for Indo-Europeans. They probably knew themselves as Arya plus a plural suffix, possibly '-na', producing Aryana. Apart from being preserved in the eponymous province of Aria in Central Asia, this was also retained in many Indo-European names such as Iran (Aryan).
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Aug 13, 2024 · Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent. The theory of an “Aryan race” appeared in the mid-19th century and remained prevalent until the mid-20th century.
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The basic unit of Aryan society was the extended and patriarchal family. A cluster of related families constituted a village, while several villages formed a tribal unit. Child marriage, as practiced in later eras, was uncommon, but the partners' involvement in the selection of a mate and dowry and bride-price were customary.
Nuristani languages of northeastern Afghanistan have both Indo-Aryan and Iranian features. All these languages form the Aryan or Indo-Iranian language family. Their common ancestry with most European languages was proposed already before it was announced by William Jones in 1786 and definitely proved in the nineteenth century.
Abstract. The principal traits of Aryan culture are started by Vedic, Iranian, and Greek literary texts and cognate terms found in the proto-Indo-European languages. The texts that help to reconstruct the material and other aspects of Aryan culture comprise the Rig Veda, Zend-Avesta, and Iliad and Odyssey. These texts present agriculture and ...
tral Asia into the Indian Subcontinent. There, they came upon the Indus or Harappan cities, destroyed them and drove survivors southward (where they became ‘Dravidians’), although softer versions propose that the Aryans arrive. after the decline of the Indus cities. Either way, they swept across the Indus plains, composed the Vedas over a ...
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The ancestors of Aryans might have come from Africa or Central Asia, but the Aryan culture was distinctly indigenous and derived from the Kshatriya clans of the Vedic civilization. The Buddha was a Kshatriya, a person of noble birth. His followers often addressed him as Aryaputra, meaning the son of an Arya. So was Mahavira.
