Indo-European peoples
The Indo-European peoples those who lived in Eastern Europe and Central Asia thousands of years ago. They descended from the Ukrainian steppes and spread out across Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, and India.[1]
The Indo-Europeans are Bronze Age-speakers of Indo-European languages that had not yet split into the language families that we know today, like the sentum and satem dialects (speakers of languages predating Proto-Indo-Iranian, Proto-Greek, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Balto-Slavic etc.)
Speakers of Indo-European languages in historical times are not called by the name Indo-Europeans but with often by the name of their language family like Anatolians, Tocharians, Aryans (Iranians, Indo-Aryans), Greeks, Celts, Italic peoples, Germanic peoples, Baltic peoples, Slavic peoples, Armenians, Albanians (or subdivisions of those groups).
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Mallory, J. P.; Adams, Douglas Q. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture. Taylor & Francis. pp. 4 and 6 (Afanasevo), 13 and 16 (Anatolia), 243 (Greece), 127–128 (Corded Ware), and 653 (Yamna). ISBN 978-1-884964-98-5. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
