Indo-european

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Indo-European refers to the following semantic items:

A family of languages:

• Indo-European languages
• Indo-European people - peoples speaking an Indo-European language
• Indo-European studies, an academic field.

A hypothetical progenitor of Europeans, Iranians and Indians:

• Proto-Indo-European language, the hypothetical common ancestor of all Indo-European languages
• Proto-Indo-Europeans - an ancient ethnic group; an ancestor of the Indo-European peoples.
• Proto-Indo-European religion - the hypothetical religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
• A synonym for the 19th-century term Aryan (language, ethnicity, or religion).

A fill-in response for the "Some other race" section of the US Census which is classified as a type of Eurasian ambiguously involving the mixture of Asian Indians or Indonesians (Indo) and Europeans.University of Michigan. Census 1990: Ancestry Codes. August 27, 2007. [1]

See also

• Pre-Indo-European
• List of Indo-European roots

References

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