Indo-Iranians
thumb|Map displaying the origins of the Proto-Indo-Iranian (Ā́rya/Aryan) Sintashta culture as a migration of peoples from the Bronze Age European [[Corded Ware culture through the Fatyanovo-Balanovo culture]] thumb|The Sintashta-Petrovka culture (red) expanded into the [[Andronovo culture (orange) in the 2nd millennium BC, overlapping the Oxus civilization (green) in the south; it includes the area of the earliest chariots (pink).]]
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19 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- History
- Origin
- Expansion
- First wave – Indo-Aryans
- The Mitanni of Anatolia
- Indian subcontinent – Vedic culture
- Second wave – Iranians
- Archaeology
- Language
- Religion
- Genetics
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Map displaying the origins of the Proto-Indo-Iranian (Ā́rya/Aryan) Sintashta culture as a migration of peoples from the Bronze Age European [[Corded Ware culture through the Fatyanovo-Balanovo culture]] thumb|The Sintashta-Petrovka culture (red) expanded into the [[Andronovo culture (orange) in the 2nd millennium BC, overlapping the Oxus civilization (green) in the south; it includes the area of the earliest chariots (pink).]]
The Indo-Iranian peoples, or Indo-Iranic peoples, also known as Ā́rya or Aryans from their self-designation, are a group of speakers of Indo-European languages who brought the offshoot Indo-Iranian languages to parts of Eurasia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards. The original location of Indo-Iranians were thought to be north of modern-day Afghanistan, east of the Caspian Sea, in the area that is now Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. They eventually branched out into the Iranian peoples who migrated south and west, while the Indo-Aryan peoples migrated south and east.