The name Iran comes from the Indo-Iranian roots of the people who built early Persian civilisation.

The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the northern Indian subcontinent. They constitute a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, itself a branch of the Indo-European ...

Western Eurasian influence spread to South Asia in two waves sometime before the advent of the Bronze Age (which lasted approximately from 3000 to 500 BCE) and in the late Bronze Age, according to a ...