Indo-European people
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Indo-European topics |
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| Indo-European languages |
| Albanian · Armenian · Baltic Celtic · Germanic · Greek Indo-Iranian (Iranian, Indo-Aryan) Italic · Slavic extinct: Anatolian · Paleo-Balkans (Dacian · |
| Indo-European peoples |
| Albanians · Armenians Balts · Celts · Germanic peoples Greeks · Indo-Aryans · Iranians · Latins · Slavs historical: Anatolians (Hittites, Luwians) · |
| Proto-Indo-Europeans |
| Language · Society · Religion |
| Urheimat hypotheses |
| Kurgan hypothesis · Anatolia Armenia · India · PCT |
| Indo-European studies |
Indo-European people are the speakers of the Indo-European languages, a major language family of Eurasia. In the context of linguistics, the term usually refers to Bronze Age (third to second millennia BC) speakers of Indo-European languages that had not yet split into the attested sub-families, viz. early Centum and Satem dialects (speakers of languages predating Proto-Indo-Iranian, Proto-Armenian, Proto-Greek, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Balto-Slavic etc.) The term is also used to apply to the Proto-Indo-Europeans, speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language from which all Indo-European languages ultimately stem.
"Indo-Europeans" does not usually refer to speakers of various Indo-European languages in historical times. Linguists usually refer to such people specifically by the language in question: Anatolians, Tocharians, Armenians, Aryans (Iranians, Indo-Aryans), Greeks, Celts, Italic peoples, Germanic peoples, Baltic peoples, Slavic peoples, Albanians (or subdivisions of these groups).
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