Indo-Aryan speakers form about one half of all Indo-European speakers (approx 1.5 of 3 billion), also more than half of Indo-European languages recognized by Ethnologue.

The Indo-Aryan branch consists of most Indian languages that trace their origin to Sanskrit (therefore excluding the Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic and Andamanese families of languages).

Besides Indo-Aryan and Dravidian families of languages, which command the brute majority of speakers, there are three more such language families in India ...

Revealing dead languages To understand what’s going on, it helps to look at how the study of Indo-European languages developed. During the 16th century, as travel and trade put Europeans in ...

The word Aryan was therefore adopted to refer not only to the Indo-Iranian peoples, but also to native Indo-European speakers as a whole, including the Romans, Greeks, and the Germans.

The Indo-European languages belong to one of the widest spread language families of the world. For the last two millenia, many of these languages have been written, and their history is relatively ...