The Indo-Aryan Languages

by George Cardona and Danesh Jain

Book Overview

The Indo-Aryan languages, spoken by at least 700 million people in the Republic of India, in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldive Islands, and in countries where immigrants from South Asia have settled, constitute a major group within the Indo-European family. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. This language family supplies a historical documentation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700711309
• ISBN13: 9780700711307
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 1088 Pages
• Weight: 3.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"