"The period between the arrival of the Indo-Aryan in the Indian subcontinent and the composition of the oldest Vedic hymns must have been much longer than was previously thought."
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F. B. J. Kuiper
Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus "Frans" Kuiper (7 July 1907 – 14 November 2003) was a Dutch linguist and Indologist.
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