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The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in India , Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , Nepal and Maldives . [1]
- c. 800 million (2018)–1.5 billion
- Proto-Indo-Aryan
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.5 billion speakers, predominantly in South Asia, West Asia and parts of Central Asia.
- Indo-EuropeanIndo-Iranian
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Indo-Aryan languages. Present-day geographical distribution of the major Indo-Aryan language groups. Romani, Domari, Kholosi, Luwati, and Lomavren are outside the scope of the map. 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 ...
Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent. Historically, Aryans were the Indo-Iranian speaking pastoralists who migrated from Central Asia into South Asia and introduced the Proto-Indo-Aryan language.
- over 160 million
- over 26 million
- over 911 million
- over 233 million
- Bengali
- Hindustani
- Prakrit
- Sanskrit
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See also Bengali WikisourcePortal:Bengali language and literatureStandard Hindi
1. See also the Hindi portalon central Wikisource Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी), High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritised register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh region. It is one of the 22 official languages of India and is used as the primary official language of the Republic of India.Warning: template has been depre...
Standard Urdu
1. See also the Urdu portalon central Wikisource Standard Urdu is another standard register of the Hindustani language that retains more of the Persian, Arabic and Chagataivocabulary in Hindustani and written in the Perso-Arabic script. Is is the official language of Pakistan and an official language in five Indian states.
Prakrit (also transliterated as Pracrit) (Sanskrit: prākṛta प्राकृत (from pra-kṛti प्रकृति)) is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Old Indic dialects. The word, derived from its Indian root "Parikrit", itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, u...
See also Sanskrit WikisourcePortal:SanskritPortal:Sanskrit dramaIndo-Aryan languages, or Indic languages, Major subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by more than 800 million people, principally in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The Old Indo-Aryan period is represented by Sanskrit.
1 The Indo-Aryan Languages: a tour. sub-branch of the Indo-European family, spoken mainly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldive Islands by at least 640 million people (according to the 1981 census). (Masica (1991)).