We can group India’s languages into several language families. In fact, most can be classified by its origins among two families: The Indo-Aryan family This is actually a branch of the Indo-European language family and it’s predominant in northern India, as are the origins of about 78%...
Identification of the major language families of India and evaluation of their mutual influencedoi:10.18520/cs/v110/i4/667-681Feature extractionlanguage familymodeling techniquesmutual influenceA language family is a group of languages which have descended from a common mother language. Since the ...
Out-of-India hypothesissubstratumThis paper addresses the theme of the seminar from the perspective of historical linguistics. It introduces the construct of 'language family' and then proceeds to a discussion of contact and the dynamics of linguistic exchange among the main language families of ...
•andthemembersofthegrouparecalledcognatelanguages(同语系语言)(<Lcognatus‘borntogether,relatedbybirth’).Forexample,theGermanic日耳曼语,Slavic斯拉夫语,Romance罗曼语,andIndo-Iranianlanguagefamilies（印度伊朗语系）arebranchesofalargerIndoEuropeanlanguagefamily.3 语系languagefamily 分类的最大单位由一个共同的...
(or 5,000)languages, which can be divided into 300 roughly families on the basis of similarities in their basic word stock and grammar.;The INDO-EUROPEAN family is made up of most the languages of Europe, the Near East, and India and can be divided into 2 sets and 8 groups according ...
The Dravidian language family is one of the largest language families in the world. The vast majority of linguists believe that the Dravidian language family is completely unrelated to any other language family. The family includes 73 languages spoken by over 222 million people in southern India, ...
Most languages belong to language families. A language family is a group of related languages that developed from a common historic ancestor, referred to as protolanguage (proto- means ’early’ in Greek).
1.3 LINGUISTIC OVERVIEW OF INDIA As mentioned above, India is the home of the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families. It also contains speakers of two other language families, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman. Given in the Atlas of World Languages (Moseley and Asher 1994, p.207), the nu...
Most languages in India belong to one of the four language families: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burmese and Austro- Asiatic. According to the 2001 Indian Census there are a total of 122 languages and 234 mother tongues. However, these figures cannot be accepted as final as the Census ...
Therefore, there are three different language families coming in contact and much likely influencing each other. Sadri being the lingua franca of Jharkhand has a much greater influence on Asur language. The domains of usage of Asur are continually shrinking, or rather it can be said the lives...