Re: Who were the Aryans?

"Dorothy J Heydt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Neither "Nordic" nor "Aryan" are terms that are used any more, in
> large part because the Hitlerites did use those terms.

I presume "Aryan" is still used in Iran, where it always has been used, and
where the creators of modern linguistics got it in the first place.

> The Indo-European family of languages includes about a dozen
> linguistic groups, including
>
>    Italic (including Latin and the Romance languages, its descendants))
>    Greek (including Homeric and Attic Greek and a lot of others)
>    Celtic (including Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, Gaulish, and many others)
>    Indo-Iranian (formerly "Aryan" or "Indo-Aryan")
>    Germanic (formerly "Nordic")
    includes English and the Scandihoovian languages (not Finnish or Lapp,
however)

>    Slavic
>    Armenian
>    Lithuanian
>    Latvian

These two are closely related members of the "Baltic" family

>    Tokharian
>
> And I'm probably forgetting a few, it has been a while.

Hittite.
Albanian. (Is this related to Illyrian, or do we not know?)
Ossetian -- the Ossetians are the last survivors of the Scythians.
Sanskrit and its descendants -- modern Hindi? Certainly Romany (Gypsy).

Tsar Parmathule