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India; India and …

Latin Indus, from Greek Indos, Indian.

The link may be geographical (Indo-China; Indo-Pacific, relating to the Indian Ocean and the adjacent parts of the Pacific; Indo-jazz, a jazz style modified by the musical styles and instruments of the Indian sub-continent), ethnological (Indo-Malaysian or Indo-Malayan, an ethnological region comprising Sri Lanka, the Malay peninsula, and the Malaysian islands), or linguistic (Indo-European, of the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India).

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