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Language families in the Indian subcontinent. Since the Iron Age in India, the native languages of the Indian subcontinent are divided into various language families, of which the Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian are the most widely spoken.
A strong tradition of linguistic analysis developed in India associated with the composition and preservation of the ancient Vedic hymns in the first millennium BCE and continued uninterrupted to modern times. Fields of metrics, lexicography, phonetics, and grammar were recognized first.
Aug 11, 2015 · Originating from over 5,000 years ago, records of the linguistic history of India began with early pictures that transformed into pictorial scripts and engravings and eventually in to modern...
The largest linguistic history in Indian languages were in terms of native speakers, with the significant ones being: Hindustani ( Hindi and Urdu, approximately 540 million), Bengali (approximately 200 million), Punjabi (approximately 100 million), Marathi (approximately 90 million), Gujarati (approximately 45 million), Nepali (approximately 40 ...
1.1 Languages and language families of India. India is home to a wide variety of languages. The estimates of the actual number of languages vary. Ethnologue (ac-cessed on 10 September 2018) lists 462 individual languages (these include 448 living and 14 extinct).
Jul 1, 2019 · Some prevalent hypotheses to explain the creation of India as a linguistic area are presented. The ‘substratum view’ is critically assessed. Evidence from historical linguistics in support...
Jul 5, 2019 · Some prevalent hypotheses to explain the creation of India as a linguistic area are presented. The ‘substratum view’ is critically assessed. Evidence from historical linguistics in support of two dominant hypotheses – ‘the Aryan migration view’ and ‘the out-of-India hypothesis’ – is presented and briefly assessed.
