Indo-Aryan

Speech parts

1. Indo-Aryan - Noun

2. Indo-Aryan - Adjective

3. Indo-Aryan - Proper noun

Meaning

of or relating to the former Indo-European people

a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

aryan indo-european Indic bengali hindi Pakistani Nepali hindustani arian assamese urdu prakritic Gujarati indo-germanic Indo-Hittite
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Hypernyms

Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian language

Hyponyms

sanskrit Nepali Dard Sindhi prakrit Dardic

Examples

Indo-European migrations Source: Internet

A few words from another Indo-Aryan language (see Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni ) are attested in documents from the ancient Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and Syria and the Hittite kingdom in Anatolia. Source: Internet

Belonging to this category are onomatopoetic words or ones borrowed from local non- Indo-Aryan languages. Source: Internet

Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class that governed a predominately Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Kassite Babylon created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia. Source: Internet

Indo-Aryan migrations and Sanskritization Northern Dravidian pockets Although in modern times speakers of the various Dravidian languages have mainly occupied the southern portion of India, in earlier times they probably were spoken in a larger area. Source: Internet

Colin P. Masica, The Indo-Aryan languages. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Indo-African Indo-Arabic Indo-Arabic numeral indo-aryan languages Indo-Aryanist Indo-Asia