From the dialects of Old Indo-Aryan to Proto-Indo-Aryan and Proto-Iranian
From the dialects of Old Indo-Aryan to Proto-Indo-Aryan and Proto-Iranian
The Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages are divided into two basic groups, Indo-Aryan (i.e. languages nowadays mainly spoken in India in its pre-1947 sense of South Asia) and Iranian (i.e. languages nowadays mainly spoken in Iran, also rather in the historical sense of the Persian Empire, which extended to Central Asia and the Indus Valley). This chapter discusses how this dialectal split goes back to the very emergence of Proto-Aryan from Late Proto-Indo-European, far from India and Iran.
Keywords: Indo-Iranian languages, Old Indo-Aryan, dialectal split, India, Iran, Iranian, Proto-Aryan
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