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The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
Nov 11, 2008 · The Indo-Aryan deva 'god' cognates with the Iranian daēva 'demon'. Similarly, the Indo-Aryan asura 'name of a particular group of gods' (later on, 'demon') cognates with the Iranian ahura 'lord, god,' a reflection of religious rivalry between Indo-Aryans and Iranians.
Ratha (Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hrátʰas, Vedic Sanskrit: रथ, IAST: rátha; Avestan: raθa) is the Indo-Iranian term for a spoked-wheel chariot. The term has been used since antiquity for both fast chariots and other wheeled vehicles pulled by animals or humans, in particular the large temple cars or processional carts still used in Indian ...
Feb 26, 2021 · A Present grouping of Indo-Iranian languages is shown with a black solid line; red dotted line indicates classical independent position of Dardic within the Indo-Iranian domain proposed in ...
A principal mudança fonológica separando o proto-indo-iraniano do proto-indo-europeu foi o colapso das vogais apofônicas *e, *o, *a numa única vogal, a proto-indo-iraniana *a. Entre as mudanças sonoras do proto-indo-iraniano para o indo-ariano está a perda da sonora sibilante *z , enquanto para o iraniano está a desaspiração das ...
Indo-Iranian peoples, also known as Indo-Iranic peoples by scholars, and sometimes as Arya or Aryans from their self-designation, were an ethno-linguistic group who brought the Indo-Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, to major parts of Eurasia.
Indo-Iranian, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by more than a billion people, chiefly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages, table). Source for information on Indo-Iranian: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. dictionary.
