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Re: Indika

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 11:32
Quoting Costentín Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:

> > Mine is based on Indo-Aryan > > languages, which, of course belongs to the > > Indo-European family of languages. > > Hm. In the West, _I think_, Indo-Aryan and > Indo-European are synonymous, along with > Indo-Germanic. > > Or do you mean Indo-Iranian? - which is the limb > to which Sanskrit and Avestan belong; and thus > Hindi/Urdu, the other Prakrits and Farsi.
I took Indo-Aryan to mean "Indic" - the Indian branch of the Aryan=Indo- Iranian languages. Andreas