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t. e. Proto-Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages native to the Indian subcontinent. [1] It is thought to have differentiated into Proto-North Dravidian, Proto-Central Dravidian, and Proto-South Dravidian, although the date of diversification is still debated.
Bengali is official language of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak valley of Assam while Assamese and Odia are the official languages of Assam and Odisha, respectively. The Eastern Indo-Aryan languages descend from Abahattha, which descends from Magadhan Apabhraṃśa [1] and ultimately from Magadhi Prakrit. [2] [3] [1]
t. e. Indigenous Aryanism, also known as the Indigenous Aryans theory (IAT) and the Out of India theory ( OIT ), is the conviction [1] that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, [2] and that the Indo-European languages radiated out from a homeland in India into their present locations. [2] It is a "religio-nationalistic" view on ...
Words and phrases in Indo-Aryan languages. This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.
v. t. e. The earliest Indo-Aryan migration to Assam is estimated to have occurred between the 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE [1] —not earlier than 500 BCE. [2] The earliest epigraphic record suggests that the Indo-Aryan migration began latest by the middle of the 4th century CE. [3] They came from the Gangetic Plains into a region already ...
The term Aryan language appears in works published in the 19th century and 20th century to mean very old Indo-European languages : The Vedic Sanskrit language. The Old Persian language. The Avestan language. The Bactrian language. The term Proto-Aryan is an alternative name of the Proto-Indo-Iranian language. In works published in the late 19th ...
v. t. e. Avestan ( / əˈvɛstən / ə-VESS-tən) [1] is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BC). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scriptural language of Zoroastrianism; the Avesta serves as their namesake.
