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Müller originally coined ‘Aryan’ as a linguistic term for speakers of Indo-European languages. How did he later respond when this term was misused to describe a biological race?

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1. Müller originally coined ‘Aryan’ as a linguistic term for speakers of Indo-European languages. How did he later respond when this term was misused to describe a biological race?

He embraced the racial interpretation and expanded on it

He explicitly repudiated it, comparing it to speaking of a ‘dolichocephalic dictionary’

He refused to comment publicly on the matter

He argued the term should be abandoned entirely

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