Indo-Aryan

Indo- +‎ Aryan

Indo-Aryan

1. A branch of Indo-Iranian and thus Indo-European language family, with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million, chiefly in South Asia.

   Synonym: Indic

   • 1969, Gordon H. Fairbanks, “Comparative Indo-Aryan”, in Thomas A. Seboek, editor, Current Trends in Linguistics, volume 5, Linguistics in South Asia, page 40:

     Such a situation is not unusual in the history of languages, but Indo-Aryan has a very virulent case of the disease.

   • 2016, Uta Reinöhl, Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 9:

     This is another way in which a depiction of the historical developments in Indo-Aryan bears on the theory of phrase structure generally, and on the rise of adpositional phrases in Indo-European specifically, showing us alternative pathways of change.

   • 2017, John J. Lowe, Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan, →ISBN, page 53:

     Indo-Aryan has a very long history of attestation, from around 1400 bc to the present […]

Indo-Aryan (comparative more Indo-Aryan, superlative most Indo-Aryan)

1. Of or pertaining to Indo-Aryan languages and people.

   Synonym: Indic

Indo-Aryan (plural Indo-Aryans)

1. A native speaker of an Indo-Aryan language.