The Indo-Aryan languages
by Cardona, George Jain, Dhanesh
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is …
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- Full title :The Indo-Aryan languages / edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain.
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The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each c.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1305 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781135797119, 1135797110, 0700711309, 9780700711307, 9781135797102, 1135797102, 1280917849, 9781280917844, 9786610917846, 6610917841
- oclc:ocn648298147
- LC Classification:PK116
- Dewey Decimal:491.1
Table of Contents
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF THE INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES; CHAPTER THREE ARYAN LANGUAGES WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES; CHAPTER FOUR SANSKRIT; CHAPTER FIVE ASOKAN PRAKRIT AND PALI; CHAPTER SIX PRAKRITS AND APABHRAMSA; CHAPTER SEVEN HINDI; CHAPTER EIGHT URDU; CHAPTER NINE BANGLA; CHAPTER TEN ASAMIYA; CHAPTER ELEVEN ORIYA; CHAPTER TWELVE MAITHILI; CHAPTER THIRTEEN MAGAHI
CHAPTER FOURTEEN BHOJPURICHAPTER FIFTEEN NEPALI; CHAPTER SIXTEEN PANJABI; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SINDHI; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN GUJARATI; CHAPTER NINETEEN MARATHI; CHAPTER TWENTY KONKANI; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE SINHALA; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO DARDIC; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE KASHMIRI; GENERAL INDEX; LANGUAGE INDEX; INDEX OF CITED PASSAGES
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