The Indo-Aryan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) - Hardcover

Book 7 of 27: Routledge Language Family Series
 
9780700711307: The Indo-Aryan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series)

Synopsis

The Indo-Aryan languages, spoken by at least 700 million people in the Republic of India, in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldive Islands, and in countries where immigrants from South Asia have settled, constitute a major group within the Indo-European family. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. This language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. Further, the interaction between Indo-Aryan and Dravidan, Munda, and Tibeto-Burmese languages as well as Arabic and other Indo-European languages affords a rich field of study for borrowing and adaptation. Major features of Indo-Aryan languages have been described before, but there is a need for a synoptic treatment of these languages.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

George Cardona, Danesh Jain

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780415772945: The Indo-Aryan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  041577294X ISBN 13:  9780415772945
Publisher: Routledge, 2007
Softcover