Indo-European people

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For the language group see Indo-European languages; for other uses see Indo-European (disambiguation)

Indo-Europeans are speakers of Indo-European languages. The term may apply to

The Indo-Europeans in genetic or racial regard
The Indo-Europeans in Anthropology, the terms Indo-European and Proto-Indo-European have largely replaced Caucasian race in meaning for an ethnic group
The Proto-Indo-Europeans (speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language)
Bronze Age (3rd to 2nd millennia BC) speakers of Indo-European languages that had not yet split into the attested sub-families, viz. early Centum and Satem dialects (speakers of languages predating Proto-Indo-Iranian, Proto-Greek, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Italic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Balto-Slavic etc.)

The term "Indo-Europeans" does not usually refer to speakers of various Indo-European languages in historical times: linguists usually refer to such people specifically as Anatolians, Tocharians, Indo-Aryans, Iranians, Greeks, Celts, Italic peoples, Germanic peoples, Veneti, Baltic peoples, Slavic peoples, Armenians, Albanians (or subdivisions of these terms).

Note that in any event the classification "Indo-European" addresses matters of language, which do not necessarily correlate with divisions of ethnicity or even of specific culture.

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