Talk:Indo-Aryan languages

Mitanni

It seems strange that Mitanni language would be Indo-European if its speakers are hurrian?

no, the Mitanni nobility were indo-aryan, ruling over a hurrian population. there was some confusion as to which language should be labeled "mitanni", but the term generally refers to the upper-class indo-aryan language now. see Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni dab (ᛏ) 07:24, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

wrong numbers

@Kautilya3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages

• The largest in terms of native speakers are Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu, about 329 million),[2] Bengali (about 200 million), Punjabi (about 100 million),[3] Marathi (about 70 million), Gujarati (about 50 million), Bhojpuri (about 40 million), Awadhi (about 38 million), Maithili (about 30 million), Odia (about 30 million), Sindhi (about 26 million), Braj Bhasha (about 21 million), Rajasthani (about 20 million), Saraiki (about 20 million), Chhattisgarhi (about 18 million), Nepali (about 16 million), Sinhala (about 15 miilion), Assamese (about 15 million), Haryanvi (about 13 million), Kannauji (about 9 million), Bagheli (about 8 million), Kashmiri (about 6 million), Dogri (about 4 million), and Bundeli (about 3 million), Garhwali (about 3 million), Kumaoni (about 2 million), with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million.

• i was understand in wikipedia 900 = 1086!

329+ 200+100+ 70+ 50+40 +38 +30+ 30+ 26+21+ 20+ 20+ 18 + 16 + 15+ 15 + 13 + 9+ 8 + 6 + 4+ 3+3+ 2 million=1086 million, with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million.

What?!

Why there is no mention of just aryan alone? 2404:8000:1027:85F6:4C83:2256:B46E:F7D7 (talk) 15:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Question of the day

Who coined the term "Indo-Aryan"? And when? Grierson already used the term in a matter-of-factish way at the end of the 19th century, and it is found earlier in works by William Wilson Hunter. @Dyḗwsuh₃nus, Chariotrider555, Uanfala, Joshua Jonathan, and Others: do you have a source about the ultimate provenance of the scholarly term? Austronesier (talk) 21:31, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
Forgot to ping @AryamanA. –Austronesier (talk) 21:34, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

An interesting question @Austronesier, and not just of the day!

I'd like to dig deeper, but from what I know it appears that there's no clear answer to this. At least from the documentation available. It just appeared at some point in the 1800s.

And as is a must these days, one even consulted Giptipedia, with the same result! :-) Dyḗwsuh₃nus (talk) 09:54, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Pinging @Kashmiri as well. Dyḗwsuh₃nus (talk) 10:04, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Dyḗwsuh₃nus, thanks for pinging, but I regret I won't be of much help here. Sanskrit grammar is the field I feel more comfortable in than the history of linguistics. — kashmīrī ^TALK 11:47, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Superfluous template?

I don't understand the necessity of the Anchor template call in ==== {{Anchor|Old Indo-Aryan}}Old Indo-Aryan ==== — wouldn't the anchor be there anyway, by virtue of the subtitle, even if the template call were removed? — Tonymec (talk) 14:10, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Someone please update the classification chart

The current chart/language tree implies that Vedic is the ancestor of the Prakrits , this has been refuted by later scholars such as Walter Petersen and Thomas Oberlies whose works are also cited in other Wiki Articles. I propose using a cropped version of the Indo European Language tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages#/media/File%3AIndo-European_language_tree_(with_major_international_languages_highlighted).svg Bodhiupasaka (talk) 07:37, 15 September 2023 (UTC)