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Fortson IV 2011, стр. 209, Fortson, IV: "The Sanskrit word ārya-, the source of the English word, was the self-designation of the Vedic Indic people and has a cognate in Iranian *arya, where it is also a self-designation.. Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2011). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (на језику: енглески). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-1-4443-5968-8. Приступљено 5. 4. 2020.
Mallory & Adams 1997, стр. 304, J. P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams: "Our ability to reconstruct a Proto Indo-Iranian intermediate between Proto-Indo-European on the one hand and Proto-Indic and Proto-Iranian is also supported by the self-designation, *aryo-.". Mallory, J. P.; Adams, Douglas Q. (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (на језику: енглески). Taylor & Francis. ISBN978-1-884964-98-5. Приступљено 5. 4. 2020.
Fortson IV 2011, стр. 209, Both the Indic and Iranian terms descend from a form *ārya that was used by the Indo-Iranian tribes to refer to themselves. (It is also the source of the country-name Iran, from a phrase meaning 'kingdom of the Aryans'.)". Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2011). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (на језику: енглески). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-1-4443-5968-8. Приступљено 5. 4. 2020.
Duchesne-Guillemin 1979, стр. 337, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin: "It thus seems that Ved. arya and Avest. airya are to be connected [...] with a Vedic homophone ari-, aryá- 'righteous, loyal, devout', and with Indo-Iranian *ara- 'fitting, proper'". Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques (1979). Acta Iranica (на језику: енглески). Brill Archive. ISBN978-90-04-05941-2. Приступљено 5. 4. 2020.
Bailey, H. W. „ARYA – Encyclopaedia Iranica”. www.iranicaonline.org (на језику: енглески). Архивирано из оригинала 03. 03. 2016. г. Приступљено 5. 4. 2020. „ARYA an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition.”
Bailey, H. W. „ARYA – Encyclopaedia Iranica”. www.iranicaonline.org (на језику: енглески). Архивирано из оригинала 03. 03. 2016. г. Приступљено 5. 4. 2020. „ARYA an ethnic epithet in the Achaemenid inscriptions and in the Zoroastrian Avestan tradition.”