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Definition of Indo-Aryan

1. Noun. A branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people. "Indo-European migrations"

Definition of Indo-Aryan

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

2. Noun. A speaker of Indo-Aryan languages. ¹

3. Proper noun. 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 India. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indo-Aryan

Indians Indic Indicatoridae Indiella Indies Indigirka Indigirka River Indigo child Indigo children Indigofera anil

Indigofera suffruticosa Indigofera tinctoria Indira Gandhi Indira Nehru Gandhi Indo- Indo-Aryan (current term) Indo-Aryans Indo-Briton Indo-Britons Indo-China

Indo-European Indo-European language Indo-European root Indo-European roots Indo-Europeanist Indo-Europeanists Indo-Europeans Indo-Germanic Indo-Hittite Indo-Iranian

Literary usage of Indo-Aryan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Indo-Aryan LANGUAGES. " Indo-Aryan " is the name generally adopted for those Aryans who entered India and settled there in prehistoric times, and for their ..."

2. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1876)
"NORTHERN OR Indo-Aryan STYLE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. CONTENTS. Introductory — Dravidian and Indo-Aryan Temples at ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... (3) Indo-Aryan, or Sans- kritic Indo-Aryan languages (for the last two see Indo-Aryan); Iranian being also grouped into Persian and non-Persian. ..."

4. Race Life of the Aryan Peoples by Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1907)
"IV THE Indo-Aryan WHEN the Sanskrit and its treasures of early Brah- minic literature became known to western scholarship it was as the discovery of old, ..."

5. Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries by R. A. Donkin (1998)
"The following cognates are found among the living languages of Indo-Aryan affiliation (Table 2, Map 21). The adoption of a Dravidian name for the pearl ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"(For information regarding Rajasthani the reader is referred to the articles Indo-Aryan LANGUAGES; PRAKRIT; and GUJARATI.) Khas-kura shows most traces of ..."

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