List of Indo-Aryan languages

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.

Contents

Historical

Contemporary languages

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

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

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

Northern Zone

North-Western Zone

Dogri-Kangri languages (Western Pahari)

(included in Pahari by SIL)

Lahnda languages
Sindhi languages

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 Kausen)

Central Zone

North Central Zone (Punjabi)
West Central Zone (Western Hindi)
East Central Zone (Eastern Hindi)

Eastern Zone (Magadhan)

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

Assamese–Bengali languages
Bihari languages
Oriya languages
Tharu

Southern Zone languages

Insular Indic

The insular languages are spoken in the islands of Sri Lanka and Maldives along with the island of Minicoy. The insular languages share several characteristics which set them apart significantly from their continental sister languages. (SIL makes them a separate branch of Indo-Aryan.) However, Sinhala and Dhivehi are no longer mutually intelligible.[1]

Unclassified

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

See also

References

  1. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2081/is_3_127/ai_n31523541/