A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(IE) the designation for the family of nations who speak languages which show certain common features in the structure of their grammar and in vocabulary as well as some traces of a culture which they once shared.
It includes all European languages (except Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Basque) and their early forms and predecessors, including classical Greek and Latin, as well as the Iranian group and the Sanskrit-related (Indo-Āryan) languages. The prehistoric ancestral home of all these peoples is thought to have been in Southern Russia, from where they migrated in the course of several millennia to their present abodes in India, parts of the Middle East and all over Europe (and then all over the world through modern colonial expansion).
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