Indo-Aryan

This article presents the historical development of the Indo-Aryan family of languages, one of the major language families of the world. These languages, spoken in the northern half of the Indian subcontinent and in Sri Lanka, are direct descendants of Sanskrit.

Information processing tools to facilitate human-machine interaction in Indian languages.

Similarities, differences, origins, and political status of the two languages.

Discusses the history of these two speech forms, essentially considering them as versions of the same language.

Comprehensive site on scripts descendent from ancient Brahmi script.

Online version of a book by Koenraad Elst, published by Aditya Prakashan in New Delhi (India). It oulines the latest arguments (including those in linguistics) for and against the prehistoric invasion of India by Indo-European speakers.

Collection of links to linguistic discussions about Bangani, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the lower Himalayas (India). Bangani has some features in common with the "kentum" (Western European, Greek and Tokharian) rather than the "satem" (Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian) branches of the Indo-European family.

Indo-Iranian (Indo-Aryan, Iranian) Italic · Slavic. extinct: Anatolian ... Indo-Iranian peoples consist of the Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dardic and Nuristani ...[2008/11/17]

... of the sub-branch of Indo-Iranian languages referred to as Indo-Aryan languages. ... term Aryan currently may be used to refer to the Indo-Iranian language ...[2008/11/30]

Aryan n. Indo-Iranian. No longer in technical use. A member of the people who spoke the parent language of the Indo-European languages[2008/12/03]

Indo-Iranian n. A branch of the Indo-European language family that comprises ... The prehistoric Indo-Iranians (see also Aryan) The Proto-Indo-Iranian religion ...[2008/11/28]

Indo-European Languages: Indo-Iranian Family. This page describes a family of ... Indo-Aryan" as used on this page refers to Indo-Iranian languages that are not ...[2008/11/10]

... the Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and Nuristani languages of the Indo-Iranian Frontier ... the Indo-Aryan languages BhaT'e-sa zib, Ušuj'u, the Açharêtâ' (Palôlâ') dialect ...[2002/09/03]

Archaeological cultures associated with Indo-Iranian migrations (after EIEC) ... The Indo-Aryan deva 'god' cognates with the Iranian daēva 'demon' ...[2008/11/22]

... (or Pisacha), the Indic (or Indo-Aryan), and the Iranian. ... The Indic, or Indo-Aryan, languages form the largest group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily. ...[2008/11/21]

... largest sub-group of the Indo-Iranian (Âryan) group of Indo-European languages. ... It is undoubtedly Indo-Âryan in origin, with a layer of Nuristâni vocabulary. ...[2001/06/13]

Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages are spoken by some 800 million persons in India, ... The Indo-Aryan and Iranian language subgroups also differ from each other in a ...[2008/11/19]