E-Book, Englisch, 1332 Seiten
Jain / Cardona The Indo-Aryan Languages
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-135-79710-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 1332 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-135-79710-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European.
This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.
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Part I: General Articles
1. General Introduction George Cardona and Dhanesh K. Jain
2. The Sociolinguistics of the Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian Subcontinent Dhanesh K. Jain
3. Alphabets and Writing Systems (Historical and Descriptive) Richard Salomon
Part II: Language Articles
A: Major Languages
1. Sanskrit (including Vedic) George Cardona
2. Early Middle Indo-Aryan (Ashoka and Pali) Thomas Oberlies
3. Later Middle Indo-Aryan: Prakrits and Apabhramsa Vit Bubenik
4. Hindi Michael Shapiro
5. Urdu Ruth Laila Schmidt
6. Bangla (Bengali) Probal Dasgupta
B: Other Languages
7. Asamiya (Assamese) G. C. Goswami and Jyotiprakash Tamuli
8. Oriya Tapas S. Ray
Languages of Bihar
9. Maithili Ramawtar Yadav
10. Magahi Sheela Verma
11. Bhojpuri Manindra K. Verma
12. Panjabi Christopher Shackle
13. Nepali Theodore Riccardi
14. Sindhi Lachmann M. Khubchandani
15. Gujarati George Cardona and Babubhai K. Suthar
16. Marathi Rajeshwari Pandharipande
17. Konkani Rocky Miranda
18. Sinhala James W. Gair
19. Dardic Languages Elena Bashir
20. Kashmiri Omkar N. Koul