"It may be in vain to try and identify the Indo-Aryans [since] language, ethnic identity and culture are individual components that can be combined in many different ways, and nothing allows us to state that, knowing language x and culture x, we are dealing with ethnic group x."
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B. Lyonnet (1994). "Central Asia, the Indo-Aryans and the Iranians: Some Reassessments from Recent Archaeological Data." South Asian Archaeology (1:425-434). Ed. Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 10
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