Indo-Aryan

[ in-doh-air-ee-uh n, -yuh n, -ar-; -ahr-yuh n ]

/ ˈɪn doʊˈɛər i ən, -yən, -ˈær-; -ˈɑr yən /

a member of a people of India who are Indo-European in speech and Caucasoid in physical characteristics.

Indic(def 3).

Indic(def 2).

of, relating to, or characteristic of the Indo-Aryans.

Origin of Indo-Aryan

First recorded in 1840–50

It will be observed that, at the present day, Gujarati breaks the continuity of the outer band of Indo-Aryan languages.

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While modern Iranian often retains the nexus with little or no alteration, modern Indo-Aryan prefers to simplify it.

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As in other Indo-Aryan languages, comparison is effected by putting the noun with which comparison is made in the ablative case.

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We know more about the ancient history of Gujarati than we do about that of any other Indo-Aryan language.

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The great mass of both vocabularies is tadbhava (see Indo-Aryan Languages).

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Indo-Aryan

another word for Indic (def. 1)

another name for Indic (def. 2)

a native speaker of an Indo-Aryan language