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Christopher M. Hutton, The people that never were: Linguistic scholarship and the invention of the Aryans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 298. Hb. £64 (and open access).

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Christopher M. Hutton, The people that never were: Linguistic scholarship and the invention of the Aryans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 298. Hb. £64 (and open access).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2026

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Language in Society , First View , pp. 1 - 3
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Hutton, Christopher M. (1999). Linguistics and the Third Reich. Mother-tongue fascism, race and the science of language. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Hutton, Christopher M. (2005). Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, racial anthropology and genetics in the dialectic of Volk. Cambridge: Polity.Google Scholar
Hutton, Christopher M. (2025). The diffusion of Caucasian and Aryan in the United States: A study in the impact of racial anthropology and comparative philology. Language and History 68(2–3):.10.1080/17597536.2025.2535227CrossRefGoogle Scholar