Indo-aryan (Noun)
Meaning
A branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-European language family and are spoken by over 800 million people worldwide.
- Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Bangladesh and parts of India.
- The earliest known writing systems of the Indo-Aryan languages date back to the Gupta period in ancient India.
- Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language that emerged as a lingua franca during the Mughal Empire in India.
- The Indo-Aryan language family also includes Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and Punjabi, among others.