10 Facts About Aryan

Aryan or Arya is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' .

Aryan certificate was a primary requirement to become a Reich citizen for those who were of German or related blood and wanted to become Reich citizens after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935.

The Sanskrit word arya is rendered as 'noble' in William Jones' 1794 translation of the Indian Laws of Manu, and the English Aryan appeared a few decades later, first as an adjective in 1839, then as a noun in 1851.

Name Aryan is still used as a given name or surname in modern South Asia and Iran.

Term 'Aryan' was initially introduced into the English language through works of comparative philology, as a modern rendering of the Sanskrit word arya.

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Accordingly, the term 'Aryan' came to refer in scholarship to the Indo-Iranian languages, and, by extension, to the native speakers of the Proto-Indo-Iranian language, the prehistoric Indo-Iranian peoples.

Many of them indeed believed that Aryan was the original self-designation used by the prehistoric speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, based on the erroneous assumptions that Sanskrit was the oldest Indo-European language and on the linguistically untenable position that Eriu was related to Arya.

However, the use of 'Aryan' to mean 'Proto-Indo-European' is regarded as an "aberration to be avoided".

In 1885, the New Zealand polymath Edward Tregear argued that an "Aryan tidal-wave" had washed over India and continued to push south, through the islands of the East Indian archipelago, reaching the distant shores of New Zealand.

The term "invasion", while it was once commonly used in regard to Indo-Aryan migration, is usually used only by opponents of the Indo-Aryan migration theory.