Indo-Aryan

[ in-doh-air-ee-uhn, -yuhn, -ar-; -ahr-yuhn ]

noun

1. Indic ( def 1 ).
2. a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indic language such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, or Urdu.

adjective

1. Indic ( def 3 ).
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Indo-Aryans or their languages.

Indo-Aryan

adjective

1. another word for Indic

noun

1. another name for Indic
2. a native speaker of an Indo-Aryan language

Word History and Origins

Origin of Indo-Aryan¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

But some of the earliest Buddhist sutras were written around the 5th or 6th century A.D., in the Indo-Aryan language called Pali. which is far less specific than Sanskrit.

From Salon

"Other linguists and I were able to collect a hundred or so words which suggested that this language belongs to Indo-Aryan sub family of languages."

From BBC

Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of languages and is the root of many Indian languages.

From BBC

Sanskrit is a language which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is the root of many, but not all Indian languages.

From BBC

The Romani language is a two-gender, New Indo-Aryan language, and not a three-gender Middle Indo-Aryan language, and thus could not have left India with its speakers earlier than about 1,000 C.E.

From New York Times