Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 52:2 (2025) ► pp.353–359
Book review
. The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. ISBN 9780190213015 (e-book (open access)) / 9780190212988 (Print book) £ 64.00
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