Johanna Nichols Quotes

Johanna Nichols is an American linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Johanna Nichols Quotes

“The Iranian family, which was next to sweep across the steppe and deserts, finds its region of greatest diversity in the central Asian mountains, and its ancestral Indo-Iranian family finds its own greatest diversity in the mountain region from central Asia to northern India.”

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i.e. Bactria- Sogdiana and parts just south
The Epicentre of the Indo-European Linguistic Spread, 1997

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