03405oam 2200673I 450 991045093680332120200520144314.01-135-79711-01-280-91784-997866109178460-203-94531-X10.4324/9780203945315 (CKB)1000000000410515(EBL)308727(OCoLC)437188173(SSID)ssj0000299567(PQKBManifestationID)11212858(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299567(PQKBWorkID)10240719(PQKB)10201433(MiAaPQ)EBC308727(Au-PeEL)EBL308727(CaPaEBR)ebr10185682(CaONFJC)MIL91784(OCoLC)742300512(OCoLC)900476994(EXLCZ)99100000000041051520180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Indo-Aryan languages /edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh JainLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (1333 p.)Routledge language family seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-77294-X 0-7007-1130-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 MAGAHICHAPTER FOURTEEN BHOJPURICHAPTER 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 PASSAGESThe 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. Each cRoutledge language family series.Indo-Aryan languagesSouth AsiaLanguagesElectronic books.Indo-Aryan languages.491.1Cardona George1936-203401Jain Dhanesh938399MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450936803321The Indo-Aryan languages2114054UNINA