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Indo-Iranian languages, group of languages constituting the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European family of languages; only the Tocharian languages are found farther east. Scholarly consensus holds that the Indo-Iranian languages include the Iranian and Indo-Aryan (Indic) language groups.
- George Cardona
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages [1] [2] or collectively the Aryan languages [3]) 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
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages [a]) 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 Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal . [1]
- c. 800 million (2018)–1.5 billion
- Proto-Indo-Aryan
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Indo-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.
14.1 Introduction. Indo-Iranian is mainly divided into the two big sub-branches of Indo-Aryan and Iranian. 1 IIrn. languages are first attested in the fifteenth century BCE in the Hurrian state of Mit (t)an (n)i and surrounding areas through divine, throne and personal names as well as through hippological terms.
Oman. The development of languages is a fluid process, and the emergence of linguistic identities in Central Asia from the second millennium BC does not disguise the fact that many of these languages were originally closely related. Modern Indian languages descend from Pakrit and Sanscrit (among other ancient languages), whilst the languages ...
