Indo-Aryan
See also: Indoaryan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- A branch of Indo-Iranian and thus Indo-European language family, with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million, chiefly in South Asia.
- Synonym: Indic
- 1969, Gordon H. Fairbanks, “Comparative Indo-Aryan”, in Thomas A. Seboek, editor, Current Trends in Linguistics, volume 5, Linguistics in South Asia, page 40:
- Such a situation is not unusual in the history of languages, but Indo-Aryan has a very virulent case of the disease.
- 2016, Uta Reinöhl, Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 9:
- This is another way in which a depiction of the historical developments in Indo-Aryan bears on the theory of phrase structure generally, and on the rise of adpositional phrases in Indo-European specifically, showing us alternative pathways of change.
- 2017, John J. Lowe, Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 53:
- Indo-Aryan has a very long history of attestation, from around 1400 bc to the present […]
Translations
[edit]family of languages
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Adjective
[edit]Indo-Aryan (comparative more Indo-Aryan, superlative most Indo-Aryan)
- Of or pertaining to Indo-Aryan languages and people.
- Synonym: Indic
Translations
[edit]Of or pertaining to Indo-Aryan languages and people.
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Noun
[edit]Indo-Aryan (plural Indo-Aryans)
- A native speaker of an Indo-Aryan language.
Translations
[edit]A speaker of an Indo-Aryan language.
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