Proto-Indo-Iranian language
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Proto-Indo-Iranian, also called Proto-Indo-Iranic or Proto-Aryan,[1] is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Its speakers, the hypothetical Proto-Indo-Iranians, are assumed to have lived in the late 3rd millennium BC, and are often connected with the Sintashta culture of the Eurasian Steppe and the early Andronovo archaeological horizon.
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Proto-Indo-Iranian | |
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Proto-Indo-Iranic (PIIr) | |
Reconstruction of | Indo-Iranian languages |
Region | Eurasian Steppe |
Era | late 3rd m. BCE |
Reconstructed ancestor | |
Lower-order reconstructions |
Proto-Indo-Iranian was a satem language, likely removed less than a millennium from its ancestor, the late Proto-Indo-European language, and in turn removed less than a millennium from Vedic Sanskrit (of the Rigveda)[2] and Old Avestan (of the Gathas), its descendants.
It is the ancestor of Indo-Aryan languages, the Iranian languages, and the Nuristani languages, predominantly spoken in the Southern Asian subregion of Eurasia.