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, ...

Language is the core tool humans use to share ideas, emotions, and culture. Linguists group individual languages into ...

Making it to the top 5 on our list is Urdu. It is spoken as a second language by over 161 million people around the globe. Urdu belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and is the official language ...

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 ...

Officially recognised languages in India: India is a country with a rich variety of languages and cultures. There is a unique language to each Indian state. The Constitution recognises a total of 22 ...

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...