How Migration and Soft Power Made Indo-European Languages Dominant. History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

For instance, most Indo-Aryan languages (like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, etc.) descend from Sanskrit and Prakrit, meaning they share a core vocabulary and grammatical base.

In an article for The Daily Star, Bangladesh’s English-language daily, Majeed suggests that the idea for the LSI may have been proposed to Grierson by his tutor, Robert Atkinson, professor of Oriental ...

Urdu literary groups have welcomed the Supreme Court's judgment on Urdu, calling it a language rooted in India and as Indian as other Indo-Aryan languages, Hindi and Marathi.

Humans The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages. It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India ...

The Vindhya also serves as an anthropological border. North of the Vindhya lies the land of the speakers of Indo-Aryan languages—Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc.

The Indic (or the Indo-Aryan) languages in the Northern states, together with the Dravidic languages in the South and the Tibeto-Burman languages in the Northeast, each with a great variety of sub ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the Indo-European family of 400-plus languages, spoken today by more than 40% of ...

Ancient DNA Sheds Light on the Origins of Indo-European Languages New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging long-standing ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

These languages — several of them belonging to Dardic, a group of Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages — as introduced in the book, include: Dameli: ...