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- noun Plural form of
Proto-Indo-Iranian .
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Beyond its use as the ethnic self-designation of the Proto-Indo-Iranians, the meaning "noble/spiritual" has been attached to it in Sanskrit and Persian.
Steve Anderson: Tom Metzger & WAR: The Race is On and it Looks Like Heartaches 2008
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The Indo-Europeans who migrated into India and Iran around 2500-2000 BC may have originated here, which would make this area the homeland of the Aryans or Proto-Indo-Iranians who wrote the Vedas and introduced the caste system into India.
Ancient World Review 2008
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