This volume prints four papers. X. Tremblay's « Comparative grammar, historical grammar : which real facts are and can be reconstructed by comparative grammar ? » is an epistemologic study which can also be used to explain to specialists without specialized background, i-e to most of today's archaeologists and historians, which results of the comparative grammar of Indo-European languages they can safely use. G. Fussman's « Fantasms, science and politics : aryans on their way to India » is a general survey, mainly intended for historians, of the problems and contemporary controversies. J. Kellens, in « Ir. Airiia- only means 'Iranian' », demonstrates that Avestic airiia- is an ethnonym linked with the myths of the origins of the Iranians and indeed should be translated by « Iranian ». When Vedic arya- is not the common name of all Indo-Aryan-speaking peoples entering India, as demonstrated long ago, and Iranian airiia- is an ethnonym specialized in the meaning « Iranian », arya-/airiia- cannot have been the ethnic name of undivided Indo-Iranian-speaking peoples, less so of the earlier Proto-Indo-European-speaking community. H.-P. Francfort's « Oxus Civilization, or BMAC, Indo-Iranians and Indo-Aryans » begins with a first-hand survey of the common characteristics of the Oxus civilization, called by the English-writing archaeologists BMAC (Bactro-Margian Archaeological Complex), beginning c. 2500, floruit c. 2200-1750, ending c. 1500 BC., and then tries to ascertain what in it can be linked with the incoming of Indo-Iranian speaking peoples.

Aryas, Aryens et Iraniens en Asie Centrale

Gérard, FUSSMAN

Jean Kellens

Henri-Paul Francfort

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