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The term Indo-Iranian languages refers to the spectrum of Indo-European languages spoken in the Southern Asian region of Eurasia, spanning from the Indian subcontinent (where the Indic branch is spoken, also called Indo-Aryan) up to the Iranian Plateau (where the Iranic branch is spoken).
Indo-Iranian languages, group of languages constituting the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European family of languages; only the Tocharian languages are found farther east. Scholarly consensus holds that the Indo-Iranian languages include the Iranian and Indo-Aryan (Indic) language groups.
Indo-Iranian Languages is a journal dedicated to the languages of the same linguistic branch. The main topics of the journal include phonetic, grammatical, lexical, areal, and other studies on Indo-Iranian languages.
Indo-Iranian languages - Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Characteristics: The close relation between the Iranian and Indo-Aryan groups has never been doubted. They share linguistic features to such a degree that Indo-Iranian is generally described as a distinct subgroup of Indo-European.
Despite the wide range of differences within the population, Iran has only one official language: Persian. The Persian language, also known as Farsi, belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is part of the Indo-Iranian subgroup.
The Indo-Iranian peoples, [10] [11] [12] also known as Ā́rya or Aryans from their self-designation, were a group of Indo-European speaking peoples who brought the Indo-Iranian languages to major parts of Eurasia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards.
Iranian languages, subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Iranian languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains.
Indo-Iranian is mainly divided into the two big sub-branches of Indo-Aryan and Iranian. 1 IIrn. languages are first attested in the fifteenth century BCE in the Hurrian state of Mit (t)an (n)i and surrounding areas through divine, throne and personal names as well as through hippological terms.
Indo-Iranian (possibly Indo-Aryan) terms include wa-ša-anna- ‘training area’, and a-i-ka, ti-e-ra-, pa-an-za-, ša-at-ta-, na-a-wa-ar-tan-na-‘one, three, five, seven, nine rounds’. · Names of Indo-Aryan derivation among the ruling class of the (mainly Hurrian-speaking) Mitanni population (Mayrhofer 1982; Witzel 2001).
The Indo-Iranian languages can be divided into three main subgroups: Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and Nuristani. Indo-Aryan languages are predominantly spoken in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, while Iranian languages are mainly found in Iran and neighboring regions.
The development of languages is a fluid process, and the emergence of linguistic identities in Central Asia from the second millennium BC does not disguise the fact that many of these languages were originally closely related. Modern Indian languages descend from Pakrit and Sanscrit (among other ancient languages), whilst the languages spoken in Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan stem from Middle ...
Indo-Iranian languages are the largest Indo-European language branch with 1.5 billion speakers that include Indo-Aryans and Iranian languages.
Iranian among the Indo-European languages. According to recent linguistic and archae- ological investigations, Indo-European represented already a widely ramified group of
The recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed in this book by a group of linguists and archaeologists.
The Iranian and Indo-Aryan language groups are commonly referred to as the Indo-Iranian (IIr.) branch of the Indo-European language family, which would have been spoken several millennia earlier somewhere, perhaps, in the area of southern Russia.
(5) Indo-Iranian . Several important linguistic changes took place between Indo-European and Indo-Iranian, the reconstructed common ancestor of Iranian and Indian. The reconstruction of this proto-language is based primarily on the oldest recorded stages of Old Indic and Old Iranian, namely the Rigveda and the Old Avesta. Later stages of the ...
Slavic and Indo-Iranian. . . that at a very early date it lost contact with its more easterly sisters sand came into close contact with the languages to the west; and that that contact episode led to extensive vocabulary borrowing at a period before the occurrence in any of the languages of any distinctive sound changes that
In the satem languages, which include the Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian branches, as well as (in most respects) Albanian and Armenian, the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European palatovelars remained distinct and were fricativized, while the labiovelars merged with the 'plain velars'. In the centum languages, the palatovelars merged with the plain ...
Across these four languages, the concept has referred to the animating dimension of self-consciousness with human interpersonal relations as the primary locus of such considerations.2 Historically, then, spirit has connoted the life force behind agencies believed to be personal. We shall see that, when traced across at least the Western ...
Hockett, Charles F. Humboldt, Wilhelm von Hungarian and Ugric Languages Hymes, Dell Hathaway I Iconicity Identity and Language Ideology and Language Idiomaticity Idioms Igbo and Igboid Languages India Indian Ocean Creoles Indian Traditional Grammar Indo-European 1: Overview Indo-European 2: Germanic Languages Indo-European 3: Indo-Iranian ...
Current name: Samara, Russian: Самара, IPA:), / s ə ˈ m ɑːr ə / sə-MAR-ə; [18] Former name: Kuybyshev, Куйбышев; IPA: [ˈkujbɨʂɨf] Samara is named after the Samara River, which probably means "summer water" (signifying that it froze in winter) in the Indo-Iranian language which was spoken there around the third millennium BC. [19] The Samara city gives its name to the ...