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Indo-Germanic

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In·do-Ger·man·ic  (nd-jr-mnk)
Indo-Ger·manic adj.
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Adj.1.Indo-Germanic - of or relating to the Indo-European language family


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However, the renowned scholar of Indo-Germanic languages at the University of Munich, Walther Wrist, argued that Gypsy fairy tales were told in an idiom that was "Indoaryan" and thus manifested "unadulterated Aryan thinking.
Sir William Jones' suggestion that Sanskrit and the classical European tongues had a common origin in an Indo-Germanic language was enthusiastically received, and a score of chairs of Indology sprang up across nineteenth-century Germany at a time when Britain, which ruled India, had only three.
Even now, it makes a very bad impression for Latvian soldiers to be wearing what look extremely like SS uniforms, and brandishing a swastika-like "Fire Cross," in evocation (as with the Nazis) of their Aryan, or Indo-Germanic, as distinct from Slavic, origin.
 
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