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The Aryan race is a now debunked, historical race concept which emerged in the late 19th century to describe people of Indo-European heritage as a racial grouping.[1] The theory had been widely rejected and disproved since there neither exists historical evidence nor archaeological evidence which supports the claims.[2][3][4]
The concept derives from the notion that the original speakers of the Indo-European languages and their descendants up to the present day constitute a distinctive race or subrace of the Caucasian race.[5][6]
Etymology
The term Aryan has generally been used to describe the Proto-Indo-Iranian language root *arya which was the ethnonym the Indo-Iranians adopted to describe Aryans. Its cognate in Sanskrit is the word ārya (Devanāgarī: आर्य), in origin an ethnic self-designation, in Classical Sanskrit meaning "honourable, respectable, noble".[7][8] The Old Persian cognate ariya- (Old Persian cuneiform: