LEADER 03425oam 2200673I 450 001 9910828764703321 005 20230215232636.0 010 $a1-135-79710-2 010 $a1-135-79711-0 010 $a1-280-91784-9 010 $a9786610917846 010 $a0-203-94531-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203945315 035 $a(CKB)1000000000410515 035 $a(EBL)308727 035 $a(OCoLC)437188173 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299567 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11212858 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299567 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10240719 035 $a(PQKB)10201433 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308727 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10185682 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL91784 035 $a(OCoLC)742300512 035 $a(OCoLC)900476994 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308727 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000410515 100 $a20180331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Indo-Aryan languages /$feditors, George Cardona, Dhanesh Jain 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (1333 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge language family series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-77294-X 311 $a0-7007-1130-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aBOOK 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 327 $aCHAPTER 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 330 $aThe Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. 410 0$aRoutledge language family series. 606 $aIndo-Aryan languages 607 $aSouth Asia$xLanguages 615 0$aIndo-Aryan languages. 676 $a491.1 701 $aCardona$b George$f1936-$0203401 701 $aJain$b Dhanesh$01708253 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828764703321 996 $aThe Indo-Aryan languages$94097150 997 $aUNINA