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- Proto-Indo-Iranian was a satem language, likely removed less than a millennium from its ancestor, the late Proto-Indo-European language, and in turn removed less than a millennium from Vedic Sanskrit (of the Rigveda) and Old Avestan (of the Gathas), its descendants.
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History. Proto-Indo-Aryan is meant to be the predecessor of Old Indo-Aryan (1500–300 BCE), which is directly attested as Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, as well as by the Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni. Indeed, Vedic Sanskrit is very close to Proto-Indo-Aryan. [4]
Proto-Indo-Aryan (or sometimes Proto-Indic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Aryan languages. It is intended to reconstruct the language of the pre-Vedic Indo-Aryans . Proto-Indo-Aryan is meant to be the predecessor of Old Indo-Aryan (1500–300 BCE), which is directly attested as Vedic and Mitanni-Aryan .
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- Proto-Indo-Aryan
Proto-Indo-Iranian, also called Proto-Indo-Iranic or Proto-Aryan, [1] is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Its speakers, the hypothetical Proto-Indo-Iranians, are assumed to have lived in the late 3rd millennium BC, and are often connected with the Sintashta culture of the Eurasian Steppe and the ...
- late 3rd m. BCE
- Indo-Iranian languages
The structure of Proto-Indo-Aryan must have been similar to that of early Vedic, albeit with dialect variations. A wide variety of New Indo-Aryan languages are currently in use. According to the 2001 census of India, Indo-Aryan languages accounted for more than 790,625,000 speakers, or more than 75 percent of the population.
- George Cardona
Indo-Iranian evolved north of the Black Sea. About 2200 bce, Indo-Aryans transgressed the Urals, produced metal weapons with Uralic speakers, and created the horse-drawn chariot. The chariot team was divinized as the Aśvins.
The Indo-Aryan languages come from a common ancestor, Proto-Indo-Aryan, and today include many modern languages like Marathi, Odia, Hindustani ( Hindi and Urdu ), Romani, [1] Domari, [2] Lomavren, [3] Rohingya, [4] Prakrit [5] and Sanskrit . Related pages. Languages of South Asia. Iranic languages. References. ↑ "Romani". ↑ Matras, Yaron (2012).
This chapter discusses how this dialectal split goes back to the very emergence of Proto-Aryan from Late Proto-Indo-European, far from India and Iran. Keywords: Indo-Iranian languages, Old Indo-Aryan, dialectal split, India, Iran, Iranian, Proto-Aryan.
