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Graeco-Aryan language

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Hypothetical
Indo-European
phylogenetic units

Balto-Slavic
Daco-Thracian
Graeco-Aryan
Graeco-Armenian
Italo-Celtic
Thraco-Illyrian
Thraco-Phrygian

Indo-Hittite

Graeco-Aryan refers to a hypothesis that the Proto-Greek and the Proto-Indo-Iranian languages share a common history separate from the remaining Indo-European languages. Graeco-Aryan has little support among linguists, since both geographical and temporal distribution of Greek and Indo-Iranian fit well with the Kurgan hypothesis, associating late PIE with the 4th millennium BC Yamna culture, consistent with a roughly mid-3rd millennium BC date for both Proto-Greek and Proto-Indo-Iranian.

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