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	AllRefer.com - Indo-Iranian (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		The Indo-Iranian subfamily consists of three groups of languages: the Dardic (or Pisacha), the Indic (or Indo-Aryan), and the Iranian.
		Indo-Iranian, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by more than a billion people, chiefly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages, table).
		AllRefer.com - Indo-Iranian (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/IndoIran.html (177 words)

	MSN Encarta - Language
		Language acquisition, the process by which children and adults learn a language or languages, is a major field of linguistic study.
		While the fields of language study mentioned above deal primarily with the form of linguistic elements, semantics is the field of study that deals with the meaning of these elements.
		A general characteristic of language is that words are not directly combined into sentences, but rather into intermediate units, called phrases, which then are combined into sentences.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570647_2/Language.html (177 words)

	Aryan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Aryan (Proto-Indo-Iranian) language evolved into the family of Indo-Iranian languages, of which the oldest known members are Avestan, Vedic, and another Indo-Aryan language known only from loanwords found in the Mitanni language, the latter which was itself a dialect of Hurrian.
		By the first half of the 2nd millennium BC Aryans had arrived on the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent(even though modern research in India seems to contradict the Aryan Invasion Theory).
		Aryan is an English word derived from the Indian Vedic Sanskrit and Iranian Avestan terms ari-, arya-, ārya-, and/or the extended form aryāna-.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aryan (177 words)

	Iranian languages -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
		subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
		Iranian languages are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains.
		Nearly all the Modern Iranian languages have been written—if at all—in adaptations of the Arabic alphabet.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9368164 (177 words)

	Languages : Indo-European Family
		Lithuanian is one of the oldest of the Indo-European languages.
		Armenian is spoken in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (an enclave in Azerbaijan).
		Languages that are scattered around the world as their speakers are part of diasporas.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_indoeuro.html (177 words)

	Inferring Prehistory from Language Genealogy
		In the Balkano-Danubian hypothesis, the languages of the southern European farmers (possibly including Etruscan) have become extinct and the language of farmers in the Balkans and Danube basin was proto-Indo-European.
		The only pre-Indo-European language to survive in Europe is Basque, supposed to descend from mesolithic (Solutrean) people.
		The expansion of the I-E language family involved cultural transfers or migrations along the Black Sea to the east of the Mountains and, to a lesser extent, across the Plains to the north of the Mountains.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~jamesdow/Tech/lmclade.htm (177 words)

	Persian language
		Persian belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family.
		It is believed that there must have been a fair level of mutual intelligibility between the Iranian languages of this period, and more than there would be in later periods.
		Modern Persian, the language of Iran today, was developed as early as in the 9th century.
	i-cias.com /e.o/persian_l.htm (177 words)

	Iranian Language Family
		Pashto is among the most conservative and archaic of Iranian languages in its morphology and grammar and is an important tool in the study of Iranian dialects.
		This period is marked by the rise of Islam in the former Sasanian lands and influence of foreign languages such as Arabic and Turkish on Iranian languages.
		Middle Persian was initially the language of the province of Pars (Persia), and a development of the Old Persian of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions or one of its close dialects.
	www.iranologie.com /history/ilf.html (177 words)

	Language Family Information for the Numbers List
		Ardhamagadhi, one of the post-Sanskrit dialects or Prakrits, is the language of the Jain scriptures.
		Caucasian languages (which many scholars divide into two to four unrelated families) tend to have SOV word order and ergative case systems-- the same can be said of Basque, which has led to plenty of speculation but no solid proof of relationship.
		Meroitic was the language of Meroe, an ancient kingdom south of Egypt.
	www.zompist.com /families.htm (177 words)

	February - The Indo-European language family: languages with no relatives (Albanian, Armenian, Greek), and the Indo-Iranian branch
		- Indo-Iranian languages constitute the easternmost branch of the Indo-European language family...
		The parent language, Proto- Indo-European is thought to have been spoken before 3,000 B.C. It then split into different branches that, in turn, split into different languages in the subsequent millennia..….
		It is thought to have derived from languages spoken in southeastern Europe two thousand years ago.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/february (177 words)

	Indo-Iranian Languages
		This is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the well-known region of Punjab, in northwest India.
		This language is primarily spoken in the region of Gujarat in northwestern India, near the Pakistani border.
		This language is similar to Persian (Farsi), and it is derived from the ancient language of Avestan.
	members.tripod.com /misterhaynes/indoir.htm (177 words)

	IL&S: Avestan Language and Script
		The Avestan language belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of
		One that was destined to encompass Iranian spirituality for over a thousand years.
		The latter is the language of majority of the texts.
	www.iranianlanguages.com /avestan (177 words)

	Finno-Ugric language family
		Komi language is included into the Finno-Ugric language family and forms a Permic group of the Finno-Ugric languages with the Udmurt language, which is the closest to Komi.
		In 1918 the Syktyvkar dialect was chosen as a base for the Komi literary language, because it was the central dialect among the Komi ones geographically and linguistically.
		Totally 16 languages are included into Finno-Ugric family, which were developed from the united basic language in the deepest antiquity: Hungarian, Mansi, Khanty (The Group of the Ugric languages), Komi, Udmurt (Permic group), Mari, two Mordvin languages - Erzya and Moksha, Balto-Finnic languages - Finnish, Karelian, Izhora, Veps, Vod, Estonian, Liv languages.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/2282/finno.html (177 words)

	Encyclopedia: Indo-European language family
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		Anatolian languages — earliest attested branch, from the 18th century BC; extinct, most notable was the language of the Hittites.
		The Uralic language family, which includes Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish and the languages of the Sami, is an example.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indo_European-language-family (177 words)

	Sinhala Language :: Home ::
		The Indo-Aryan group consists of languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, Punjabi and Maldivian.
		The Sinhala language is therefore a member of the Aryan family of...
		The Act dictated "Sinhala language shall be the one official language of Ceylon, and...
	www.lankalinksystems.com /sri-lanka/sinhala/sinhala-language.htm (177 words)

	List of languages article - List of languages Language families languages 639 List languages writing system - What-Means.com
		Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
		See List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more.
		This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural and constructed languages spoken by humans.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Languages (177 words)

	indo_iran%20lang.html
		The Indo-Aryan languages and the Iranian languages together constitute the Indo-Iranian language group, the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		Old Persian was the administrative language of the early Achaemenian dynasty dating from the 6th century BC; and an eastern Middle Indo-Aryan dialect was the language of the chancellery of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in India in the mid-3rd century BC.
		In addition to being the national language of Tajikistan, Tajik is important as the lingua franca of the Pamirs mountain range, a region where a remarkable variety of Iranian languages and dialects are spoken.
	stp.ling.uu.se /~kamalk/indo_iran%20lang.html (177 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Indo-Iranian Languages
		Persian Language, also known as Farsi, is the most widely spoken member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, a subfamily of the...
		Indo-Iranian Languages, group of related languages spoken by more than 450 million people in a region extending from eastern Turkey to Bangladesh and...
		A bibliography is a list of the sources you used in your research.
	encarta.msn.com /Indo-Iranian_Languages.html (177 words)

	Iranian
		The Indo-Iranian Language Family - Introduction to the Indo-Iranian languages, with sample texts and examples of many of the writing systems used by these languages.
		Conference on Iran Shows Scientific Interest in Iranian World - From Payvand, an international congress on "The Iron Age in the Iranian World" was held with "big success" in the historical Belgian city of Ghent this week, IRNA reported from Brussels.
		Iranian Health Forum - Forum hosted by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
	www.findly.com /iranian.htm (177 words)

	Kurds, Kurdistan and Kurdish Language: Indo-Iranian Language
		Kurdish is a member of the Indo-Iranian language group which is a branch of the Indo-European family, the largest language family in the world.
		The chief towns of the region are Kermanshah (capital of Kermanshahan province, west Iran, a major city of Iranian Kurdistan), Sanandaj (capital of Kurdistan Iranian province), and Ilam (capital of Ilam province)(Iran); Irbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Kirkuk (Iraq); Divarbakir, Erzurum, and Van (Turkey); and Qamishle (Syria).
		Before the emergence of Islam most of the Kurds (and Iranians) embraced Zoroastrianism and some were Christians and Jews.
	www.nouruzi.itgo.com /kurd.html (177 words)

	Farsi, the most widely spoken Persian Language, a Farsi Dictionary, Farsi English Dictionary, The spoken language in Iran, History of Farsi Language, Learn Farsi, Farsi Translation
		Farsi is a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family; it is the official language of Iran.
		Monetary unit: 10 Iranian rials = 1 Toman
		The suggestion for the change is said to have come from the Iranian ambassador to Germany, who came under the influence of the Nazis.
	www.farsinet.com /farsi (177 words)

	Indo-Iranian. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		A branch of the Indo-European language family that comprises the Indic and Iranian languages.
		A member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-Iranian language.
		The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
	www.bartleby.com /61/20/I0112000.html (177 words)

	AllRefer.com - Indo-Iranian (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		The Indo-Iranian subfamily consists of three groups of languages: the Dardic (or Pisacha), the Indic (or Indo-Aryan), and the Iranian.
		Indo-Iranian, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by more than a billion people, chiefly in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (see The Indo-European Family of Languages, table).
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Language And Linguistics > Indo-Iranian
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/IndoIran.html (177 words)

	Iranian baby names-Iranian Girl/Boy baby name
		Iranian Languages are a part of the Indo Eurpean language family.
		The Iranian language group is the part of the larger Indo-Iranian language subfamily.
		The Indo-Iranian language family is comprised of languages spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, some former Soviet republics, some areas of Iraq and Turkey, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh
	www.babynology.com /iranian (177 words)

	Persian Ministries International : Who Are They?
		Some are extremely faithful to their religion and are willing to die for their faith, as evidenced by the Iranian revolution and the recent war with Iraq.
		Persian is the second language of the remaining 65% of the population.
		Persian is the second language of the remaining 30% of the population.
	www.persianministries.org /they.php (177 words)

	Indo-European
		Formerly, the Indo-European languages were routinely characterized as belonging either to a Western (centum) or an Eastern (satem) division.
		About 1.6 billion people speak Indo-European languages today.
		Proof that these highly diverse languages are members of a single family was largely accumulated during a 50-year period around the turn of the 19th century.
	www.levity.com /mavericks/indo.htm (177 words)

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