Table of Contents
- 1 Is Nuristani Indo-Aryan?
- 2 What languages make up the Iranian languages from the Indo-Iranian branch?
- 3 What is the difference between Aryan and Indo-Aryan?
- 4 Is Kashmiri a Dardic language?
- 5 Are Dardic languages Indo-Aryan?
- 6 Is Indo-Iranian an Indo-Aryan language?
- 7 What are the Nuristani languages?
- 8 Is there a lexicostatistical study of the new Indo-Aryan languages?
Is Nuristani Indo-Aryan?
Nuristani languages, group of six languages and several dialects that form a subset of the Indo-Aryan subdivision of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages. They were once thought to have been members of the Dardic language group.
What languages make up the Iranian languages from the Indo-Iranian branch?
Among the Iranian branch, major languages are Persian (90 million), Pashto (40 million), Kurdish (35 million), and Balochi (8 million)….The Indo-Iranian languages consist of three groups:
- Indo-Aryan/Indic.
- Iranian/Iranic.
- Nuristani.
What is the difference between Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian?
The term Aryan has been used historically to denote the Indo-Iranians, because Arya is the self-designation of the ancient speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages, specifically the Iranian and the Indo-Aryan peoples, collectively known as the Indo-Iranians.
What is the difference between Aryan and Indo-Aryan?
In the 19th century “Aryan” was used as a synonym for “Indo-European” and also, more restrictively, to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages. It is now used in linguistics only in the sense of the term Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family.
Is Kashmiri a Dardic language?
Kashmiri is the only Dardic language that has been used extensively for literary purposes. Except for Shina, the languages of the Eastern subgroup have been radically changed by the influence of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken farther south.
What language is spoken in Nuristan?
They have approximately 130,000 speakers primarily in eastern Afghanistan and a few adjacent valleys in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chitral District, Pakistan….Nuristani languages.
| Nuristani | |
|---|---|
| Kafiri | |
| Geographic distribution | Nuristan, Afghanistan Chitral, Pakistan |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Nuristani |
Are Dardic languages Indo-Aryan?
The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca) are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages natively spoken in northern Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern India’s Kashmir Valley and Chenab Valley and parts of eastern Afghanistan.
Is Indo-Iranian an Indo-Aryan language?
A few words from another Indo-Aryan language (see Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni) are attested in documents from the ancient Mitanni and Hittite kingdoms in the Near East. Within the Indo-European family, Indo-Iranian belongs to the Satem group.
What are the three branches of the Indo-Iranian language?
The three branches of the modern Indo-Iranian languages are Indo-Aryan, Iranian, and Nuristani. Additionally, sometimes a fourth independent branch, Dardic, is posited, but recent scholarship in general places Dardic languages as archaic members of the Indo-Aryan branch.
What are the Nuristani languages?
Nuristani languages are spoken by more than 100,000 people, predominantly in Afghanistan. These languages were formerly labeled Kafiri, a designationnow considered offensive.
Is there a lexicostatistical study of the new Indo-Aryan languages?
Anton I. Kogan, in 2016, conducted a lexicostatistical study of the New Indo-Aryan languages based on a 100-word Swadesh list, using techniques developed by the glottochronologist and comparative linguist Sergei Starostin.