Indo-Aryan Definition

ĭndō-ârē-ən, -ăr-
adjective
Designating or of Indo-Aryan.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or being a member of an Indic-speaking people.
American Heritage
Of or relating to the Indic branch of Indo-European.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
A member of an Indic-speaking people.
American Heritage
A group of languages making up the Indic branch, Indo-Iranian subfamily, of the Indo-European language family, including Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and most of the other languages of N India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Webster's New World
A native speaker of any of these languages.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun

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.

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Other Word Forms of Indo-Aryan

Noun

Singular:
Indo-Aryan
Plural:
indo-aryans

Indo-Aryan Sentence Examples

  • Of the Indo-European family, the Iranian branch inhabits Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan; while the Indo-Aryan branch is spoken by the great mass of the people of northern India.

  • It is now used uniformly by scholars to indicate the Eastern branch as a whole, a compound, Indo-Aryan, being employed for that part of the Eastern branch which settled in India to distinguish them from the Iranians (Iran is of the same origin), who remained in Bactria and Persia, while Aryo-Indian is sometimes employed to distinguish the Indian people of this stock from the Dravidian and other stocks which also inhabit parts of the Indian peninsula.

  • This sound was frequent in the pro-ethnic period of the Indo-European languages and survived into the Indo-Aryan languages.

  • The great bulk of the Indo-Aryan or Hindu population consists of Uriyas, with a residue of immigrant Bengalis, Lala Kayets from Behar and northern India, Telingas from the Madras coast, Mahrattas from central and western India, a few Sikhs from the Punjab and Marwaris from Rajputana.

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Words Starting With

IININD

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NANYAN

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Words Starting With I and Ending With N

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