The Indo-Aryan Languages

This work provides a synoptic treatment of the Indo-Aryan languages, a language family with a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European.

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Part I: General Articles 1. General Introduction George Cardona and Dhanesh K. Jain2. The Sociolinguistics of the Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian Subcontinent Dhanesh K. Jain3. Alphabets and Writing Systems (Historical and Descriptive) Richard SalomonPart II: Language Articles A: Major Languages1. Sanskrit (including Vedic) George Cardona2. Early Middle Indo-Aryan (Ashoka and Pali) Thomas Oberlies3. Later Middle Indo-Aryan: Prakrits and Apabhramsa Vit Bubenik4. Hindi Michael Shapiro5. Urdu Ruth Laila Schmidt6. Bangla (Bengali) Probal DasguptaB: Other Languages7. Asamiya (Assamese) G. C. Goswami and Jyotiprakash Tamuli8. Oriya Tapas S. RayLanguages of Bihar9. Maithili Ramawtar Yadav10. Magahi Sheela Verma11. Bhojpuri Manindra K. Verma12. Panjabi Christopher Shackle13. Nepali Theodore Riccardi14. Sindhi Lachmann M. Khubchandani15. Gujarati George Cardona and Babubhai K. Suthar16. Marathi Rajeshwari Pandharipande17. Konkani Rocky Miranda18. Sinhala James W. Gair19. Dardic Languages Elena Bashir20. Kashmiri Omkar N. Koul

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George Cardona, Danesh Jain

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This work provides a synoptic treatment of the Indo-Aryan languages, a language family with a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European.

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• Authors: George Cardona, Cardona George, Danesh Jain, Jain Danesh
• Assisted by: George Cardona (Editor), Cardona George (Editor), Danesh Jain (Editor), Dhanesh K. Jain (Editor), Jain Danesh (Editor), Jain Dhanesh K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2003
• EAN: 9780700711307
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-1130-7
• No. of pages: 1088
• Weight: 2170 g
• Series: Routledge Language Family Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography, Sociolinguistics, Dialect, slang & jargon, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Lexicography, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Indo-European languages, Dialect, slang and jargon, Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages, Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages