Meaning of Indo-Iranianist | Babel Free

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A linguist who specializes in studying Indo-Iranian languages.

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“In the Indian field, despite the heroic labours of generations of scholars, the bulk of standard translations are woefully inadequate; and even if the position in other classical fields is not so tragic, all are to some extent affected by misinformation emanating from the pen of Indo-Iranianists.”

“Though there is no clear Indo-European etymology for this word, it is hard to imagine⟳ the Indo-Iranianists accepting it as a loan from Dravidian.”

“In September 1885 he began a temporary appointment at the ethnological section of the Kaiserliche Museum in Berlin under the direction of Adolf Bastian (1826–1905), where he had the good fortune to land⟳ among three friendly and well-disposed agemates of great philological sophistication: Felix von Luschan (1854–1924), who became a noted explorer and archaeologist; Wilhelm Grube (1855–1908), who became noted as a Sinologist, a linguist and ethnographer of peoples of the Russian Far East; and Albert Grünwedel (1856–1935), an Indo-Iranianist and art historian of Buddhism.”

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