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- In the 19th century “Aryan” was used as a synonym for “Indo-European” and also, more restrictively, to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages. It is now used in linguistics only in the sense of the term Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family.
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Aryan or Arya (/ ˈ ɛər i ə n /; Indo-Iranian *arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (*an-arya).
However, in the 19th century, it was proposed that ā́rya- was not only the tribal self-designation of Indo-Iranians, but self-designation of Proto-Indo-Europeans themselves, a theory rejected by modern scholarships.
Although the traditional useage by academics of the term 'Aryan' went out of fashion for political reasons after 1 945 mainly due to its association with the Racial Science of the Third Reich the term has been in use by a number of writers since then and used in its traditional sense.
In the 19th century “Aryan” was used as a synonym for “Indo-European” and also, more restrictively, to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages. It is now used in linguistics only in the sense of the term Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 3, 2016 · It now seems clear that only the Indo-Iranian branch of I-E languages used 'Arya' as a self-designation, although there may have been a PIE word, something like '(h)ar-' which meant 'relation' or 'companion'.
a result of colonial settlements, but the designation Indo-European is still justi- fied since the main historically known developments and cultural achievements of this vast family of nations originated and took place in India and Europe.
This division between Northern “Aryans” and their Dravidian surroundings presented an instance of the contrast between Indo-European and non-Indo-European, and in the 19th century, scholars prematurely generalized this into the assumption that Arya was an early synonym for “Indo-European”.
