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Indo-Aryan definition

Indo-Aryan (in′dō ar′ē ən, -er′-)

noun

  1. a group of languages making up the Indic branch, Indo-Iranian subfamily, of the Indo-European language family, including Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and most of the other languages of N India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
  2. Rare a native speaker of any of these languages

Etymology: Indo- + Aryan

adjective

designating or of Indo-Aryan

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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