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Indo-Iranian languages, group of languages constituting the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European family of languages; only the Tocharian languages are found farther east. Scholarly consensus holds that the Indo-Iranian languages include the Iranian and Indo-Aryan (Indic) language groups.
- George Cardona
The term Indo-Iranian languages refers to the spectrum of Indo-European languages spoken in the Southern Asian region of Eurasia, spanning from the Indian subcontinent (where the Indic branch is spoken, also called Indo-Aryan) up to the Iranian Plateau (where the Iranic branch is spoken).
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The origin and earliest relationship between the Nuristani languages and that of the Iranian and Indo-Aryan groups is not completely clear. Expansion Indo-European migrations c. 4000 to 1000 BC according to the Kurgan hypothesis .
If these traces are Indo-Aryan, they would be the earliest known direct evidence of Indo-Aryan, and would increase the precision in dating the split between the Indo-Aryan and Iranian languages (as the texts in which the apparent Indicisms occur can be dated with some accuracy).
Linguistic research created, therefore, the term Indo-K ̄af ̄ır ̄ı-Iranian to denote the common idiom once spoken by the ancestors of both Indians (Dards), Kafirs and Iranians. The ancient tribes speaking Indo-K ̄af ̄ır ̄ı-Iranian (or Proto-Indo-Iranian) are called in prehistory Proto-Indo-K ̄af ̄ır ̄ı-Iranians.
