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Then, positing 200 years as a reasonable time for the development of each of several previous bodies of religious texts, he moved backwards from the sutras through each genre to arrive at a date of ca. 200 B.C., Müller concluded that the two sets of texts were contemporary. Since these sutras contained the names of Indian and Hellenistic kings that are also mentioned in Greek works datable to ca. In the late 19th century, the great German philologist Max Müller gave a date to these texts by starting with the much later Indian Buddhist sutra literature and working his way back in time. The Indic group left behind a body of texts that contain the most complete picture of Indo-Iranian mythology and religion available. Though these developments do not shed any direct light on the emergence of the Iranian dialects, the historical information that they provide may at least be used to establish an initial chronological boundary. 1500 B.C., various tribes from the Indo-Aryan group began to penetrate the Indian subcontinent a small number also headed west. As they settled the region, the proto-language of Indo-Iranian gradually divided into Indo-Aryan and Iranian. A rough chronology can be established for the members of each dialect family by analyzing their linguistic evolution.Īt some time between 25 B.C., a group or groups of nomadic Indo-European speaking peoples of Southeastern Russia and Central Asia migrated to the regions just north of the Iranian plateau.
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These Indo-Aryan and Iranian dialects have been collectively termed Indo-Iranian. These include the Vedic liturgical texts of the Punjab region on the one hand, and a few words and passages from the legal and diplomatic documents of southeastern Anatolia's Mitanni kingdom, ruled by an Indo-Aryan minority, on the other. There are, however, striking linguistic and ideological similarities between the extant texts of Old Iranian and those preserved in the closely related dialects of Old Indo-Aryan recorded in the regions to the east and west of the Iranian plateau. Too little historical or archaeological evidence is available to reconstruct definitively the earliest emergence of Iranian-speaking communities. Median, Parthian, (Old) Sogdian, Carduchi, and Scythian are also known from their mention in Greek and Hellenistic sources, but are recorded only sporadically as glosses, toponyms, and lexical borrowings by speakers of the better-attested languages. Of these languages, Old and Young(er) Avestan and Old Persian are textually preserved. The term 'Old Iranian' is the designation for the sub-group of Indo-European languages which, between approximately 1350 and 350 B.C., spread across the Iranian plateau, an area bounded in the north by present-day Turkmenistan, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains, in the East by the Indus River, in the south by the Persian Gulf, and in the west by Mesopotamia.
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