Who were the Aryans?

Answer 1

Aryan (/ɑːrjən/) is an English language word derived from the Sanskrit and Iranian terms ārya-, the extended form aryāna-, ari- and/or arya- (Sanskrit: आर्य, Persian: آریا). Beyond its use as the ethnic self-designation of the Proto-Indo-Iranians, the meaning "noble/spiritual" has been attached to it in Sanskrit and Persian. In linguistics, it is sometimes still used in reference to the Indo-Iranian language family, but it is primarily restricted to the compound Indo-Aryan, the Indic subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch.

of southern Russia and Central Asia, who spoke the parent language of the various Indo-European languages.

Latin, Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, French, German, Latvian, English, Spanish, Russian etc. are all Indo-European languages; Indo-European, or more properly Proto-Indo-European (PIE), is the lost ancestral language from which those languages ultimately derive. The "Proto" indicates that the grammar and vocabulary of this long extinct language, probably spoken up until 3000 BC, are a hypothetical reconstruction by modern philologists. Just as Romance languages like Italian and Spanish derive from Latin, so Latin derives from PIE.

Indo-European philology traditionally used "Aryan" both to denote a people, understood racially or ethnically, and the language group itself ("Aryan speech"), irrespective of the race or ethnicity of the people speaking its various branches. In the wake of National Socialist Germany's defeat, the term fell out of general scholarly use in both senses, and "Indo-European" (IE) became the preferred designation of the language group, "Indo-Europeans" of both the people who occupied the original Aryan homeland and their descendants, who gradually spread out across Europe, much of the Indian sub-continent, and parts of the Near East. Racial nationalists are not, of course, obliged to adopt the timid PC-lexicon of contemporary scholarship, but we should be aware of imprecision of "Aryan" as a racial or ethnic classification.


Arya, meaning "noble," appears in various Indo-European languages. Its plural form (Aryas="nobles") was probably the name the Aryans used to describe themselves prior to their dispersal, and it may survive in Eire (Ireland) and certainly survives in Iran (Airyanam vaejo="realm of the Aryans"). The discovery of thousands of such cognate words in widely separated languages, along with similar grammatical structures, led philologists to conclude, early in the nineteenth century, that most European languages had evolved from a common proto-language spoken millennia ago by a distinct people who gradually left their original homeland in a series of migrations, carrying their language with them.

Traditionally Greek, Latin and Sanskrit were considered the closest languages to PIE, and much of the reconstructed Aryan proto-language is based on them. Modern Lithuanian, however, is the most archaic living language, closer to the original Aryan speech than any other. There is even an IE language, Tocharian, attested in Chinese Turkestan, which indicates that Aryans must have made an appearance in the Far East, a long-standing piece of linguistic evidence which has been recently confirmed by the discovery of the physical remains of a blond-haired people in China.

Answer 2

Aryan, term formerly used to designate the Indo-European race or language family or its Indo-Iranian subgroup. Originally a group of nomadic tribes, the Aryans were part of a great migratory movement that spread in successive waves from S Russia and Turkistan during the 2d millennium B.C. Throughout Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, literate urban centers fell to their warrior bands. Archaeological evidence corroborates the text of the Veda by placing the invasion of India by the Aryans at c.1500 B.C. They colonized the Punjab region of NW India and absorbed much of the indigenous culture. The resulting Indo-Aryan period saw the flourishing of a pastoral-agricultural economy that utilized bronze objects and horse-drawn chariots. Before the discovery of the Indus valley sites in the 1920s, Hindu culture had been attributed solely to the Aryan invaders. The idealization of conquest pictured in the Vedic hymns was incorporated into Nazi racist literature, in which German descent was supposedly traced back to Aryan forebears..

Answer 3

The Aryans are conventionally believed to be an Indo-European people who in ancient times spoke in Sanskrit and practised the vedic religion.

However many races actually argue over who the Aryans "are".

Indians claim they are the Aryans
Iranians claim they are the Aryans
Germans (and Nords) claim the are Aryans
Russians claim they are Aryans
Anglo-Saxons (English) claim they are the Aryans
Celts (welsh) claim they are the Aryans

so no one really knows for sure

Answer 4

Prehistoric people who settled in Iran and northern India.

In the 19th century there arose a notion, propagated by the count de Gobineau and later by his disciple Houston Stewart Chamberlain, of an “Aryan race”: people who spoke Indo-European, especially Germanic, languages and lived in northern Europe. The “Aryan race” was considered to be superior to all other peoples

Answer 5

there's no information that Arya and Dravidians have been certainly separate races that once occupied India. it quite is predicated on the Aryan Invasion thought, a concept that relies upon on the theory that the international is basically 4,000 y/o, which will remember on the genealogies of the e book of Genesis, and that replaced into the justification for the Holocaust. that's a concept that for the period of the present day is basically greater by utilising Linguists who won't be able to come to a decision why else Sanskrit did no longer have its very own be conscious for "elephant." Genetic information casts doubt in this concept, and various archaeological information is likewise commencing to solid doubt on the belief.

Answer 6

Its cooked up by the british. They wanted to break this subcontinent in to pieces, so they built their own story to divide us (Indians) The british were successful in doing it and even now people think aryans came from central asia and so on. Did they push dravidians to south and with what wepons and now who are those aryans and what kind of life do they lead.

Answer 7

the Aryans came to India about 2000BC from central asia.They first pccupied Punjab and gradually spread over the whole of northern India pushing the Dravidians to the south .The Aryans were a rural community.They lived in the open and worshipped the nature .They were sruurdy and had fair complxion.They wereoriginators of hindu civilization

Answer 8

Once there was a civilized life on eastern part of Zind - River Sindh or sindhu, Mohanjadaro and Harappa. During the course, various intruders while roaming, happened to be there and they have received a heart-warming welcome with food and drink. Roaming personnel were with strong muscles. They with muscle power tried to take over possession of food and stock and enjoy the wealth(s) of that province. The inheritants left for east and south - and were called 'Dravid'. the intruders themselves self-styled as 'Aaryans'. They were having more knowledge about various parts of the world and were less-broad mindedness and sympathy to co-lives. But, with the prevailing people, they become more scholars by the life-experience and the prevailing philosophy, and took the fame and name of India as 'Aaryavath'. All those were the contributions of Dravid - See Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu, the resembling civilization of Mohanjadaro and Harappa.

Answer 9

There were 2 categories of persons.
1. Aryans (Who makes puja of God)
2. Drawidians (Who makes puja of Demons)

Answer 10

Check this site for a descriptive answer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan