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Indo-Europeans or Indo-Aryans - a community of peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages, along with Iranians, one of the two main Aryan branches, are part of the Indo-Europeans. They live mainly in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and are also distributed in Afghanistan, Fiji, Seychelles and the Gypsy dialects have spread to the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe. The languages of the peoples inhabiting India belong mainly to 4 language families: Indo-European, spoken by the majority of the peoples of northern India; Dravidian, spoken by the peoples of southern India; Munda, spoken by the peoples of the eastern Central Indian Highlands; and Tibeto-Chinese, spoken by the Himalayan peoples and tribes of the areas bordering Myanmar (Burma). Excavations in the Indus Valley have shown that there was a bright and distinctive civilization already in the III-II millennia BC. The culture of these settlements was called Harappa culture. Excavations were also conducted in Mohenjo Daro.