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Hindi language. Sanskrit language. Prakrit languages. Bengali language. Punjabi language. Indo-Aryan languages, subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. In the early 21st century, Indo-Aryan languages were spoken by more than 800 million people, primarily in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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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.
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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 .
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1 The change of - ḍ - and - ḍh - to - ḷ - and - ḷh - was not universal. ātapyatē under which the Khowar word appears is thus in reality a Middle Indo-aryan word in Old Indo-aryan form. Owing to differences of dialect or of time at which many of the loanwords from Muṇḍā, Dravidian, or other languages came into Indo-aryan, they ...
The relation of this family to other Indo-Aryan languages is unclear; these languages have very different grammatical structure from that of the Classical Indo-Aryan languages. The representative languages are: Pashayi, Khowar, Kohistani, Shina language, Kashmiri Northern Zone Central Pahari Garhwali, Kumauni Eastern Pahari Nepali (Gurkali), etc.
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. The Indo-Aryan languages come from a common ancestor, Proto-Indo-Aryan, and today include ...
