** Kuru ( archaeology ), an Indo-Aryan ethnic group

** చ ా మ cāma, ṭsāma, pl. m., The millet Panicum miliaceum Also compare బ ొం తచ ా మల ు Panicum frumentaceum < From Old Indo-Aryan šyāmā s. m., 1.

** Chinese character, a written language symbol ( sinogram ) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages

In programming languages such as Ada, Fortran, Perl, Python and Ruby, a double asterisk is used, so is written as " x ** 2 ".

** Frankish language or its modern descendants, Franconian languages

** Some languages have additional grammatical aspects.

** In some languages, the formal representation of aspect is optional, and can be omitted when the aspect is clear from context or does not need to be emphasized.

** For some verbs in some languages, the difference between perfective and imperfective conveys an additional meaning difference ; in such cases, the two aspects are typically translated using separate verbs in English.

** Aryan race, a 19th century and early 20th century term for those peoples who are the native speakers of Indo-European languages

** Dardic languages ( sometimes still classified separately as a part of Iranian or Nuristani Group ):

** Language families and languages

** Official languages

** In many languages ( e. g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian ), the sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical.

** Roman alphabet or Latin alphabet, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, Indonesia, Malay, and other areas once settled by European colonial empires

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Lolo – Burmese languages

** Bodish languages

** Bodo – Koch languages

** Tani ( languages )

** Karen ( people, languages )

** Kachin – Luic or Kachinic languages

** Kukish languages

** Qiangic languages ( Kiangic ) or Dzorgai

** Mishmi or Deng ( people, northern languages, southern languages )

** Nungish languages

** Kho-Bwa languages

The Mitanni appeared in the 17th century BC and spoke an Indo-Aryan language related to the Indo-European languages eventually to be found in India.

Many Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindi-Urdu, also write the two phones differently and treat them as completely distinct phonemes: is written as ' प ' ( or ' پ '), while is written ' फ ' ( or ' پھ ') and so on.

In addition to Eastern Armenian, many languages, such as Korean, Thai, Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages, Icelandic, Ancient Greek, and the dialects of Chinese etc.

However, a few scholars have hypothesised that Brahui is a remnant of a formerly widespread Dravidian language family that is believed to have been reduced or replaced during the influx of Iranian / Indo-Aryan languages upon their arrival in South Asia.

In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages ( e. g. Sanskrit and Hindi ) and comparative Indo-European studies, breathy-voiced consonants are often called voiced aspirated, as in e. g. the Hindi and Sanskrit stops normally denoted bh, dh, ḍh, jh, and gh and the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European phoneme gʷh.

The Saraiki language is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda languages group, and is spoken in Cholistan as well as in a large part of central Pakistan.

Caldwell used ' Dravidian ' as a generic name for the family of languages spoken in Southern India to distinguish them from Indo-Aryan, the branch of Indo-European spoken in the Indian subcontinent.

Much of this complexity is required at least on occasion in the modern Indo-Aryan languages, due to the large amount of clusters allowed and especially due to borrowings from Sanskrit.

This system appears in Turkic languages, Mongolian, Quechua, Dravidian languages, many Papuan languages, Indo-Aryan languages, and others.

The oldest attested Indo-Iranian languages are Vedic Sanskrit ( ancient Indo-Aryan ), Older and Younger Avestan and Old Persian ( ancient Iranian languages ).

It has about 449 languages and dialects, according to the 2005 Ethnologue estimate, about half ( 219 ) belonging to the Indo-Aryan subbranch.

* Indo-Aryan languages

Prakrit ( also transliterated as Pracrit ) ( Sanskrit:, Shauraseni: प ा उद, Telugu: ప ్ ర ా క ృ త, Maharashtri: प ा उअ ) is the name for a group of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages.

Some modern scholars follow this classification by including all Middle Indo-Aryan languages under the rubric of " Prakrits ", while others emphasise the independent development of these languages, often separated from the history of Sanskrit by wide divisions of caste, religion, and geography.

Category: Indo-Aryan languages