They appear to be the autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia, with the neighboring Indic, Tai, Dravidian, Austronesian, and Tibeto-Burman languages being the result of later migrations ( Sidwell & Blench, 2011 ).

This system was originally created for use with the Middle Indic languages, which have a very limited number of clusters ( the only clusters allowed are geminate consonants and clusters involving homorganic nasal stops ).

Rarer lateral consonants include the retroflex laterals that can be found in most Indic languages and in some Swedish dialects, and the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative, found in many Native North American languages, Welsh and Zulu.

Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India Marathi has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indo-European, Indic languages, dating from about 1000 AD.

In most Indic languages, the word for Monday is derived from Sanskrit Sōmavāra.

In Indic languages it is also called Chandravāra, Chandra in Sanskrit means moon.

In most Indic languages, the word for Sunday is Ravi-vāsara or Aditya-vāsara or its derived forms — vāsara meaning day, Aditya and Ravi both being a style ( manner of address ) for Surya, the chief solar deity and one of the Adityas.

In most of the Indic languages the word for Thursday is Guruvar — var meaning day and guru being the style for Bṛhaspati, guru to the gods and regent of the planet Jupiter.

In most of the Indic languages, the word for Wednesday is Budhavãra — vãra meaning day and Budh being the planet Mercury.

In the Indic languages of Pali and Sanskrit, as well as in Thailand, the name of the day is taken from Angaraka (' one who is red in colour ') a style ( manner of address ) for Mangal, the god of war, and for Mars, the red planet.

Also as quasi-Sanskrit text, it is acceptable in many modern Indic languages, but the pronunciation varies considerably across India.

This is primarily because most Indic languages are abugidas in that certain unmarked consonants are assumed to have an inherent vowel, but conventions for this differ among the languages of India.

On the Indian subcontinent, green chickpeas are called Chana ( ચણ ા) in Gujarati Harbharaa in Marathi, while other varieties are known as Kadale Kaalu in Kannada, Shanaga ( శనగ ) in Telugu, chana in Hindi and other Indic languages, small brown peas are called Chhola ( ghoogni when cooked ) and the whitish bigger variety is called Kabuli Chhola in Bengali and Konda Kadalai in Tamil, where they are a major source of protein in a mostly vegetarian culture.

This official Latin script ( Maldivian Latin ) made indiscriminate use of " h " s for non-aspirated sounds, inconsistent with the clear phonetic rules of Indic languages.

Sanskrit, Hindi and all other Indic languages have an entire set of dental stops which occur phonemically as voiced and voiceless, and with or without aspiration.

The Indo-Aryan or Indic languages constitute a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family.

The Indic languages of Northern India ( that includes Assam Valley as for the language Assamese ) and Pakistan form a dialect continuum.

The latter are either of Indic or Iranian origin, and many are structured somewhat like an argot or secret language, with vocabularies drawn from various languages.

Based on this data, Matras ( 2006 ) views Romani as " kind of Indian hybrid: a central Indic dialect that had undergone partial convergence with northern Indic languages.

One of the most obvious examples is the recurrent depiction of twins such as the Indic Asvins ' horsemen ,' the Greek horsemen Castor and Pollux, the legendary Anglo-Saxon settlers Horsa and Hengist [...] or the Irish twins of Macha, born after she had completed a horse race.

The effort to colonize and maintain territories scattered around the entire coast of Africa and its surrounding islands, Brazil, India and Indic territories such as in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Japan, China, Indonesia and Timor was a challenge for a population of only one million.

* A royal cult of personality, identifying the king with the deity, characteristic not only of Angkor, but of other Indic civilizations in southeast Asia, such as Champa and Java ;

Sanskrit declines in the early 2nd millennium, late works such as the Kathasaritsagara dating to the 11th century, to the benefit of literature composed in Middle Indic vernaculars such as Old Bengali, Old Hindi.

The Indo-European family is represented by the Iranian branch, which includes Persian, Pashto, and other languages of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia ; Indic, which includes Urdu, Hindi, and several state languages of India, Pakistan, and neighboring countries ; Russian in Siberia ; Greek around the Black Sea ; and Armenian ; as well as extinct languages such as Hittite of Anatolia and Tocharian of ( Chinese ) Turkestan.

Anusvara is used in other languages using Indic scripts as well, usually to represent suprasegmental phones ( such as phonation type or nasalization ), or for other nasal sounds.

But the theory serves as an elegant explanation for a number of properties of the Proto-Indo-European vowel system that, prior to the postulation of laryngeals, were unanalyzable, such as " independent " schwas ( as in * pəter-' father '); and the hypothesis that PIE schwa * ə was actually a consonant, not a vowel, provides an elegant explanation for some apparent exceptions to Brugmann's law in Indic.

The Arabic term " Feast of the Sacrifice ", ‘ Eid ul -’ Aḍḥā is borrowed into Indic languages such as Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati and Bengali and Austronesian languages such as Malay and Indonesian ( the last often spelling it as Idul Adha or Iduladha ).

Another Semitic word for " sacrifice " is the Arabic Qurbān (), which is used in Dari Persian and Standard Persian as Eyde Ghorbân عید قربان, and in Tajik Persian as Иди Қурбон ( Idi Qurbon ), into Kazakh as Құрбан айт ( Qurban ayt ), into Uyghur as Qurban Heyit, and also into various Indic languages such as Bengali ক ো রব া ন ি র ঈদ Korbanir Id.

The Indic alphabets are distinctive for their discontinuous vowels, such as Thai เ … อ in เกอ.

For instance, on the computer, this allows the user of Latin keyboards to input Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indic characters ; on many hand-held devices, such as mobile phones, it enables using the numeric keypad to enter Latin alphabet characters ( or any other alphabet characters ) or a screen display to be touched to do so.

It allows a lossless transliteration of Devanāgarī ( and other Indic scripts, such as Śāradā script ), and as such represents not only the phonemes of Sanskrit, but allows essentially phonetic transcription ( e. g. Visarga is an allophone of word-final r and s ).

Sylheti is distinguished by a wide range of fricative sounds, which correspond to aspirated stops in closely related languages such as Bengali ; a lack of the breathy voiced stops seen in many other Indic languages ; word-final stress ; and a relatively large set of loanwords from Arabic, Persian, Bengali and Assamese.

The Santali script, or Ol Chiki, is alphabetic, and does not share any of the syllabic properties of the other Indic scripts such as Devanagiri.

There is also significant archaeological evidence, including some epigraphic evidence, for the Indo-Greek kings, such as the mention of the " Yavana " embassy of king Antialcidas on the Heliodorus pillar in Vidisha, primarily in Indic languages, which has the same problems with names as the Indic literary evidence.

Similar myths exist in other cultures describing the creation of multiple languages as an act of a god, such as the destruction of a ' knowledge tree ' by Brahma in Indic tradition, or as a gift from the God Hermes in Greek myth.

Dvandvas are common in some languages such as Sanskrit where the term originates, as well as Chinese, Japanese, and some Modern Indic languages such as Hindi and Urdu, but less common in English ( the term is not often found in English dictionaries ).

Some older operating systems do not support complex text rendering and you should not use such systems to edit Indic scripts.

Jishan is a Bangladeshi and Indic cognate for the same word and is written as such because of lack of the ' Z ' sound natively in Sanskrit derived languages.

However, the term Hindi is also used for most of the central Indic dialects from Bihar to Rajasthan.

However, the term Hindi is also used for most of the central Indic dialects from Bihar to Rajasthan, and more widely some of the Eastern and Northern dialects too.

It was once mistakenly thought to be a dialect of Hindi, but has been more recently shown to be descendant of and very similar to the Eastern Group of Indic languages, along with Bengali, Assamese, and Oriya.

Though traditionally considered Pahari, and often Hindi or Punjabi, they are more closely related to each other than to other Indic languages.

The IndUni fonts are a GPL-licensed font family with many accents and combining characters, especially suitable for Indic, Indian and Nepali ( Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi ) and Middle Eastern languages and Urdu in transliteration.

the varieties of Hindi, the Central Zone of modern Indic, including the Khariboli dialect, of which two standard registers are Hindi-Urdu, and the Punjabi language.

Its descendants include the varieties of Hindi, the Central Zone of modern Indic or Hindi languages, the standard registers of Hindi-Urdu based on the Khariboli dialect, and the Punjabi language.