Indo-Aryan languages

Japanese: インド・アーリヤ諸語 - いんどあーりやしょご
Indo-Aryan languages

…a branch of the Indo-European language family. This branch has a long history and a vast amount of literature, stretching from the Rig-Veda, estimated to date back to the 10th century BCE, to modern Indo-Aryan languages, and occupies a key position in comparative studies of this family. Its ancient layer, the Vedic language, is remarkably similar in every respect to the language of the Avesta, the oldest document of the neighboring Iranian language family, so it is thought that the two Indian and Iranian branches were united in prehistoric times.

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Indo-Aryan languages" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…インド・ヨーロッパ語族の一語派。この語派は前10世紀をさかのぼると推定される《リグ・ベーダ》から現代のインド・アーリヤ諸語に至る長い歴史と膨大な量の文献をもち,この語族の比較研究にもっとも重要な位置を占めている。その古層であるベーダ語は,隣接するイラン語派のもっとも古い文献である《アベスター》の言語とあらゆる点で類似が著しいので,このインド,イランの両語派は先史時代に一つのまとまりをなしていたと考えられる。…

※「インド・アーリヤ諸語」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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