Re: Indika
| From: | Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 8:37 |
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You are right. The Indo-European languages are divided into 10 or so
branches. Indo-Iranian is one of them. It is divided into two subbranches -
Indo-Aryan and Iranian.
IA includes Hindi, Sanksrit, Bengali, Urdu, and the languages of India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal.
Iranian includes Farsi (Persian), Pashto, Dari, Tajik and some languages of
Pakistan.
Nikhil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: Indika
> "Costentín Cornomorus" wrote:
> > Hm. In the West, _I think_, Indo-Aryan and
> > Indo-European are synonymous, along with
> > Indo-Germanic.
>
> Indo-Aryan is the Indian side of the Indo-Iranian group, which in turn,
> of course, is a branch of Indo-European.
>
> "Aryan" is an older synonym of Indo-European, which fell out of use
> after Hitler's abuse of the term "Aryan"
>
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