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oofabztoday at 6:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

The Indo-European speakers invaded from the north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migrations


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akshitgaur2005today at 7:24 PM

There is a difference between invasion and migration though, AIT has long been debunked, the current consensus is AMT

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rirzetoday at 7:10 PM

That doesn't explain Sri Lanka which is past South India...

Edit: The actual answer is North/Eastern Indians speaking an IE variant immigrated to Sri Lanka in the 5th/6th centuries and became the dominant language there since (Sinhala)

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