What is "indo-iranian"

Usage examples of "indo-iranian".

The Tocharian speakers were the easternmost of the Indo-European peoples, and their tongue (rather oddly) shows a closer kinship to the western Indo-European languages (Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Italic) than it does to the Indo-Iranian group.

And this, of course, became the Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Celtic, and a dozen other language families which were not recorded or even heard of by civilized peoples.

In the mid-eighteenth century the Pathans, a Moslem people of Indo-Iranian stock, established a buffer between the Safavid Persian empire and the Moghul empire in India.