Routledge E 029 (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Routledge, London, UK. 2007. 1305 pages. Routledge Language Family Series Bound in paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (small tear present to the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. ; Routledge Language Family Series; 9.3 X 6.5 X 2.6 inches; 1088 pages. …