The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the northern Indian subcontinent. They constitute a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, itself a branch of the Indo-European ...

The study of articulatory phonetics has provided considerable insights into the complex biomechanical processes that underlie speech production. Research on Australian Indigenous languages, such as ...

To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...

PERHAPS no conclusion of comparative philology has received such unanimous indorsement and been regarded as so incontestable as that which designates the tablelands of Central Asia as the cradle of ...

THE discovery of the Aryan family of languages, as elucidated in the paper printed in The Atlantic for February, was the first and most conspicuous consequence of the zeal for Sanskrit studies which ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...