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Titolo: |
The Indo-Aryan languages / / edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1333 p.) |
Disciplina: | 491.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Indo-Aryan languages |
Soggetto geografico: | South Asia Languages |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
CardonaGeorge <1936->
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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 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 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. Each c |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Indo-Aryan languages ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-135-79711-0 |
1-280-91784-9 | |
9786610917846 | |
0-203-94531-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450936803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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