Indo-European Peoples
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Indo-Europeans are speakers of Indo-European languages. The term may apply to:
- The Proto-Indo-Europeans (speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language)
- Bronze Age (third to second millennia BC) speakers of Indo-European languages that had not yet split into the attested sub-families, viz. early Centum and Satem dialects (speakers of languages predating Proto-Indo-Iranian, Proto-Greek, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Balto-Slavic etc.)
The term "Indo-Europeans" does not usually refer to speakers of various Indo-European languages in historical times: linguists usually refer to such people specifically as Anatolians, Tocharians, Aryans (Iranians, Indo-Aryans), Greeks, Celts, Italic peoples, Germanic peoples, Baltic peoples, Slavic peoples, Armenians, Albanians (or subdivisions of these groups).
Note that, in any event, the classification "Indo-European" addresses matters of language, which do not necessarily correlate with divisions of ethnicity or even of specific culture. Parental ethnicity is addressed by R1a1(human genetics, Haplogroup R1a1 (M17) is a Y-chromosome haplogroup that is spread across Eurasia. ) and other genetic markers.
