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Close affinities were noted between this pre-Aryan culture on the banks of the Indus and the contemporary Sumerian culture far westward in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peissel, who speaks Tibetan and has made frequent trips to the Himalayas, says: "The Minaro are indeed the last inheritors in Asia of Aryan, pre-Aryan and neolithic traditions."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sicanian, si-kā′ni-an, adj. pertaining to the Sicanians, an aboriginal pre-Aryan race in Sicily.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

I have somewhere met with the statement that the Dom was pre-Aryan, but allowed to rank as Hindoo on account of services rendered to the early conquerors.

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Wilson considers the Mahārs to be an aboriginal or pre-Aryan tribe, and all that is known of the caste seems to point to the correctness of this hypothesis.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)