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The Indo-Aryans are a wide collection of peoples united by their common status as speakers of the Indo-Aryan (Indic) branch of the family of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian languages. Today, there are close to a billion native speakers of Indo-Aryan Language s, mostly indigenous to the region of South Asia , though in ancient times, they could have been found on the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau ( Afghanistan ) and in areas as far west as modern Syria and Iraq (the Mittani ). Their cultural influence, from early on in the first millennium AD, reached as far east as modern Cambodia and Vietnam ( Khmer and Champa kingdoms) as well as Indonesia, where it survives in Bali , and in the Philippines. The Roma People migrated westward in medieval times, and modern migration gave rise to Indo-Aryan Minorities on most continents. PRE-VEDIC INDO-ARYANS See Also: Indo-Aryan migration Separation of Indo-Aryans proper from Proto-Indo-Iranian s is commonly dated, on linguistic grounds, to roughly 2000 BC. The Nuristani Languages probably split in such early times, and are classified as either remote Indo-Aryan dialects or as an independent branch of Indo-Iranian. It is believed that by 1500 BC Indo-Aryans had reached Assyria in the west (the Mitanni ) and northern Afghanistan in the east (the Rigvedic Tribes ). The spread of Indo-Aryan languages has been connected with the spread of the culture, that spread into eastern Iran and beyond. Other scholars like s were the "carriers of the Bronze Age culture of Greater Iran " living in the BMAC and that the forts with circular walls destroyed by the Indo-Aryans were actually located in the BMAC. Parpola's hypothesis has been criticized by K.D. Sethna (1992) and other writers. VEDIC ARYANS See Also: Vedic period Rigvedic tribes The first undisputed horse remains in India are found in the Bronze Age Gandhara Grave Culture context from ca. 1600 BC (although there are claims of horse bones found in Harappa n and even pre-Harappan layers). This likely corresponds to an influx of early Indo-Aryan speakers over the Hindukush (comparable to the Kushan expansion of the first centuries AD). Together with indigenous cultures, this gave rise to the Vedic Civilization of the early Iron Age . This civilization is marked by a continual shift to the east, first to the Gangetic Plain with the Kuru s and Panchala s, and further east with the Kosala and Videha . This Iron Age expansion corresponds to the Black And Red Ware and Painted Grey Ware cultures. ANTIQUITY See Also: Mahajanapadas Maurya Empire The Vedic Kuru and Panchala kingdoms in the first millennium became the core of the Mahajanapadas , archaeologically corresponding to the Northern Black Polished Ware , and the rise of the Mauryan Empire , and later the medieval Middle Kingdoms Of India . For Hellenistic times, Oleg N. Trubachev (1999; elaborating on a hypothesis by Kretschmer 1944) suggests that there were Indo-Aryan speakers in the Pontic Steppe . The Maeotes and the Sindes , the latter also known as "Indoi" and described by Hesychius as an "an Indian people".Sindoi (or Sindi etc.) were also described by e.g. Herodotus , Strabo , Dionysius , Stephen Byzantine, Polienus. {Link without Title} MIDDLE KINGDOMS , founder of the Maratha Empire .]] See Also: Middle kingdoms of India Middle Indo-Aryan languages The various Prakrit vernaculars developed into independent languages in the course of the Middle Ages (see Apabhramsha ), forming the Abahatta group in the east and the Hindustani group in the west, see also History Of The Hindi Language . The Roma People (also known as Gypsies) are believed to have left India around AD 1000 .21 CONTEMPORARY INDO-ARYANS Contemporary native speakers of Indo-Aryan languages are spread over most of the northern Indian Subcontinent . Native and non-native speakers of Indo-Aryans languages also reach the south of the peninsula and into Sri Lanka and The Maldives . The largest group are the speakers of the Hindi and Urdu dialects of the India and Pakistan , together with other dialects also grouped as Hindustani , numbering at roughly half a billion native speakers, constituting the largest community of speakers of any of the Indo-European Languages . Other Indo-Aryan communities are in Bangladesh , Nepal and parts of Afghanistan . Of the 23 National Languages Of India , 16 are Indo-Aryan languages(see also Languages Of India ). The only Indo-Aryan branch surviving outside the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas is the Romani Language , the language of the Roma People (Gypsies). Hindustani communities See Also: Hindustani language Hindustani is an umbrella term for various dialects descended from the Prakrit s of medieval India. The largest of these are the Hindi and Urdu languages. Hindustani speaking people inhabit modern-day Pakistan and Northern India . During the British Raj , this region was identified as "Hindustan", the Persian for "Land of the Hindus ". Related languages are spoken all over Indian Subcontinent , from Bengal to Sri Lanka and the Maldives . Roma and Sinti See Also: Roma people Sinti family in Smyrne , Turkey, photographed in 1904.]] The closely related Roma and Sinti people (the latter having the old name of the river Indus, the Sind), also known as "Gypsies", are traditionally Nomad ic. They are believed to have left India in about 1000 AD and to have passed through what is now Afghanistan , Persia , Armenia , and Turkey . People recognizable by other Roma as Roma still live as far east as Iran, including some who made the migration to Europe and returned. By the 14th century, the Roma had reached the Balkans ; by the 15th century they appeared in Western Europe ; and by the 16th century, they had reached Scotland and Sweden . Peoples with some similarity to the Roma still exist in India, particularly in the desert state of Rajasthan . Roma immigration to the United States began in colonial times, and larger scale immigration began in the 1860s with groups from Britain . The largest number of immigrants came over in the early 1900s. A large number also moved to Latin America . INDO-ARYAN PEOPLES Ancient Modern
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