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List of Indo-Aryan languages

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Indo-Aryan languages, grouping according to SIL Ethnologue:      Central and East Central zones      Northern zone      Northwestern zone      Eastern zone      Southern zone      Insular

The Indo-Aryan languages include some 210 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by many people in Asia; this language family is a part of the Indo-Iranian language family.

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[edit] Historical

Further information: Linguistic history of India

[edit] Contemporary languages

This classification follows Kausen (2005). The main differences from SIL are noted.

(SIL includes the Nuristani languages within Indo-Aryan.)

[edit] Dardic

(The relation of this family to other Indo-Aryan languages is unclear; SIL includes it in the Northwestern zone, despite these languages having a very different grammatical structure from that of the Classical Indo-Aryan languages.)

Kunar languages
Chitral languages
Kohistani languages
Shina languages
Kashmiri

[edit] Northern Zone (Pahari)

Main article: Pahari

[edit] North-Western Zone


Map of areas where Dogri-Kangri languages are spoken
Dogri-Kangri languages

(included in Pahari by SIL)

Panjabi

(included in the Central zone by SIL)

Lahnda languages
Sindhi languages

[edit] Western Zone

(SIL includes these languages in the Central zone)

Rajasthani languages
Gujarati languages
Bhil languages
Khandeshi
Domari-Romani

(treated as a separate group by Klausen)

[edit] Central Zone (Madhya or Hindi)

Indic, Central Zone
Main articles: Hindustani language and Hindi languages
West Central Zone (Western Hindi)
East Central Zone (Eastern Hindi)

(made a separate branch of Indo-Aryan by SIL)

[edit] Eastern Zone (Magadhan)

These languages derive from Magadhi Prakrit through Ardhamagadhi ("Half-Magadhi").

Bengali-Assamese languages
Bihari languages
Oriya languages
Tharu

Tharu is the language of the Tharu people, with roughly 1 million speakers. Tharu can be subdivided into[1]

[edit] Southern Zone languages

Konkani Family
Insular Indic

The insular languages are spoken on the islands of Sri Lanka, Minicoy and the Maldives. They share several characteristics which set them apart significantly from their continental sister languages. (SIL makes them a separate branch of Indo-Aryan.)

[edit] Unclassified

The following languages have not been classified within the Indo-Aryan family.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Boehm, Kelly Kilgo. 1997. Language use and language maintenance among the Tharu of the Indo-Nepal tarai.
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