Indo-Iranian languages

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{{Infobox Language family |name=Indo-Iranian |region=South Asia |familycolor=Indo-European |child1=Indo-Aryan / Sanskrit |child2=Iranian}}

Indo-European
Indo-European languages
Albanian \| Anatolian Armenian \| Baltic \| Celtic Germanic \| Greek \| Indo-Iranian Italic \| Slavic \| Tocharian
Proto-Indo-Europeans
Language \| Society \| Religion Kurgan \| Yamna \| Corded Ware
Indo-European studies

The Indo-Iranian language group constitute the easternmost branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It consists of three groups of language: the Indo-Aryan, the Iranian and the Dardic. The term Aryan is also used to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages. According to most Aryan migration theories, speakers of the Proto-Indo-Iranian language, who referred to themselves as Aryans, settled east and south of the Caspian Sea in Northern India, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Their expansion is believed to have been connected with the invention of the chariot.