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The Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian language family. They are mostly spoken in Southern Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bangladesh. However, some are also spoken in other places, such as Europe.
Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
Linguists traditionally recognize two primary divisions of Austroasiatic: the Mon–Khmer languages of Southeast Asia, Northeast India and the Nicobar Islands, and the Munda languages of East and Central India and parts of Bangladesh and Nepal. However, no evidence for this classification has ever been published.
Some prominent examples include the Indo-Aryan languages across large parts of India, varieties of Arabic across north Africa and southwest Asia, the Turkic languages, the Chinese languages or dialects, and parts of the Romance, Germanic and Slavic families in Europe.
Characteristics of Old Indo-Aryan texts. The most archaic stage of Old Indo-Aryan is represented by the Sanskrit of the Vedas. Modern philologists generally treat the term veda as a noun meaning ‘knowledge.’. According to traditional Indian commentators, however, veda denotes an instrument whereby one gains knowledge of the means—which ...
May 26, 2024 · Quick Reference. A term coined by philologists to distinguish the Indian, or Indic, branch of the Indo-Iranian language group from its Iranian counterpart. This model is predicated on the assumption that there was at one time an undivided population speaking a common Indo-European language (‘Indo-Iranian’), which separated over time into ...
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Divergent features. Although they have many similarities, the Indo-Aryan and Iranian language subgroups also differ from each other in a number of linguistic features. For example, Indo-Aryan has an i/ī sound representing a Proto-Indo-European laryngeal sound not only in initial syllables but also, generally, in interior syllables, as in ...
