1. SOME EARLIEST TRACES OF THE ARYAN.
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Derakhshani, Jahanshah
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INDO-Aryans , *ETHNOLOGY , *INDO-Iranians , *LANGUAGE & languages , *HISTORY - Abstract
Discusses research on the early presence of Aryans in the Near East. Linguistic evidences, such as Aryan loanwords, ethnonyms and toponyms extant in the archaic Near Eastern texts; Absolute lack of loanwords from the so-called pre-Iranian native languages in the Old Iranian dialects; Disproving of the conventional theory of the late migration of Aryans into the Iranian Highland; Substantiated pre-Sumerian presence of the Aryans in Mesopotamia; Early linguistic traces of the Aryan in the archaic Near Eastern languages such as in Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite and Egyptian.
- Published
- 2001
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