TheIndo-European peoples those who lived inEastern Europe andCentral Asia thousands of years ago. They descended from theUkrainiansteppes and spread out acrossEurope,Western Asia, Central Asia, andIndia.[1]
The Indo-Europeans areBronze Age-speakers ofIndo-European languages that had not yet split into thelanguage families that we know today, like thesentum and satem dialects (speakers of languages predatingProto-Indo-Iranian,Proto-Greek,Proto-Celtic,Proto-Italic,Proto-Germanic,Proto-Balto-Slavic etc.)
Speakers of Indo-European languages in historical times are not called by the name Indo-Europeans but with often by the name of their language family likeAnatolians,Tocharians,Aryans (Iranians,Indo-Aryans),Greeks,Celts,Italic peoples,Germanic peoples,Baltic peoples,Slavic peoples,Armenians,Albanians (or subdivisions of those groups).
