of or pertaining to ındo-ıranian peoples, cultures, and languages

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Of or pertaining to Indo-Iranian peoples, cultures, and languages.

Aryan

ith all due deference to the opinions of scholars, it may be urged that much of this elaborate development arose in an age when the speech of the people had wandered very far away from the classical type. Even if it were not so, even if there ever were a time when the Aryan peasant used poly-syllabic desideratives, and was familiar with multiform aorists, it is clear that he began to satisfy himself with a simpler system at a very distant epoch, for the range of forms in Pali and the other Prakrits is far narrower than in classical Sanskrit.

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of or pertaining to In·do-I·ra·ni·an peoples, cultures, and languages