[1] "Middle Indic" [...] the Indo-Aryan[2]
languages of [...]
I am perpetually amazed by the variety of knowledge exhibited by people
here. This is but one example, one example I find fascinating both in
its presence here and in the knowledge itself.
[2] This is a linguistic classification, prior to the
racialist
adoption of the word "Aryan" to mean something entirely
different.
I'm reminded indirectly of the remark, based on the extent to which the
peoples of what's now called the Middle East were mixed some three to
four thousand years ago, that one man's Mede is another man's Persian.
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