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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828764703321

Titolo

The Indo-Aryan languages / / editors, George Cardona, Dhanesh Jain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-79710-2

1-135-79711-0

1-280-91784-9

9786610917846

0-203-94531-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1333 pages)

Collana

Routledge language family series

Altri autori (Persone)

CardonaGeorge <1936->

JainDhanesh

Disciplina

491.1

Soggetti

Indo-Aryan languages

South Asia Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF THE INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES; CHAPTER THREE ARYAN LANGUAGES WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES; CHAPTER FOUR SANSKRIT; CHAPTER FIVE ASOKAN PRAKRIT AND PALI; CHAPTER SIX PRAKRITS AND APABHRAMSA; CHAPTER SEVEN HINDI; CHAPTER EIGHT URDU; CHAPTER NINE BANGLA; CHAPTER TEN ASAMIYA; CHAPTER ELEVEN ORIYA; CHAPTER TWELVE MAITHILI; CHAPTER THIRTEEN MAGAHI

CHAPTER FOURTEEN BHOJPURI CHAPTER FIFTEEN NEPALI; CHAPTER SIXTEEN PANJABI; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SINDHI; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN GUJARATI; CHAPTER NINETEEN MARATHI; CHAPTER TWENTY KONKANI; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE SINHALA; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO DARDIC; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE KASHMIRI; GENERAL INDEX; LANGUAGE INDEX; INDEX OF CITED PASSAGES

Sommario/riassunto

The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the



Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages.